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Pleasurable vs Righteous - What's the difference?

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Pleasurable is a related term of righteous.


As adjectives the difference between pleasurable and righteous

is that pleasurable is that gives pleasure while righteous is free from sin or guilt.

As a verb righteous is

to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.

pleasurable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • that gives pleasure

    • Synonyms

    * (giving pleasure) nice, pleasant, pleasing

    Derived terms

    * pleasurability * pleasurableness * pleasurably * unpleasurable

    Related terms

    * pleasure * please

    righteous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • free from sin or guilt
  • moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
  • justified morally
  • (slang, US) awesome

    • Derived terms

    * righteousness * self-righteous

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
    • Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.