Rhapsodize vs Rave - What's the difference?
rhapsodize | rave |
to show enthusiasm
to recite a rhapsody
To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
* 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. ยง 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between rhapsodize and rave
is that rhapsodize is to show enthusiasm while rave is to wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.As a noun rave is
an enthusiastic review (such as of a play) or rave can be one of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.rhapsodize
English
Alternative forms
* rhapsodise (Commonwealth)Verb
(rhapsodiz)- (Sterne)
rave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Verb
(rav)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)