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Perdition vs Purgatory - What's the difference?

perdition | purgatory |

As nouns the difference between purgatory and perdition

is that purgatory is in Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven while perdition is eternal damnation.

As an adjective purgatory

is tending to cleanse; expiatory.

perdition

English

Noun

(-)
  • Eternal damnation.
  • Hell.
  • Absolute ruin.

    • Synonyms

    * abyss * Hades * inferno * netherworld * underworld * hell

    Anagrams

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    purgatory

    English

    (wikipedia purgatory)

    Noun

  • (theology) In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven
  • any situation causing suffering

    • Derived terms

    * purgatorial

    See also

    * heaven * hell * limbo

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to cleanse; expiatory.
    • (Burke)