Purgatory vs Paradise - What's the difference?
purgatory | paradise |
(theology) In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven
any situation causing suffering
(chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.
* Bible, Luke xxiii. 43
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A very pleasant place.
(figuratively) A very positive experience.
(architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
A churchyard or cemetery.
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
As nouns the difference between purgatory and paradise
is that purgatory is in Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven while paradise is heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.As an adjective purgatory
is tending to cleanse; expiatory.As a verb paradise is
to affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.As a proper noun Paradise is
heaven.purgatory
English
(wikipedia purgatory)Noun
Derived terms
* purgatorialSee also
* heaven * hell * limboparadise
English
Noun
(en noun)- To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .
- It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .
- an island paradise in the Caribbean
Synonyms
* haven * heaven * utopiaDerived terms
* bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradiseSee also
* Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-laVerb
(paradis)- (Marston)