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Sepulture vs Inhumation - What's the difference?

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Sepulture is a related term of inhumation.


As nouns the difference between sepulture and inhumation

is that sepulture is sepulture while inhumation is the act of burial.

sepulture

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of sepulchering.
  • (archaic)

    • Synonyms

    * (act of sepulchering) interment

    Verb

    (sepultur)
  • To inter in a sepulture.
    • ----

    inhumation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of burial.
  • * 1885 , " Cremation or Burial," New York Times , 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
    • "Cremation versus Inhumation " was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
  • * 2010 , Eti Bonn-Muller, " Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org , 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
    • Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations .
  • The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
  • (medicine) arenation

    • Synonyms

    * burial, entombment, interment

    Antonyms

    * disinterment, exhumation