As nouns the difference between purgatory and underworld
is that purgatory is in Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven while underworld is that part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
As an adjective purgatory
is tending to cleanse; expiatory.
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)
underworld
Noun
(
en noun)
That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
(mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
Synonyms
* (world of the dead) netherworld
See also
* Hades, Tartarus
* hell
* Hel, Niflheim, Niflhel
* Gehenna