Serene vs Rapt - What's the difference?
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Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
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Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
(lb) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
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(poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
* Southey
* Young
Evening air; night chill.
* Ben Jonson
(uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
* Chapman
* Sir H. Wotton
(uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
(comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
* 1851-2 , , The Necromancer'', in ''Reynolds?s Miscellany , republished 1857; 2008,
* 1906 , '', ''Works of Ford Madox Ford , 2011,
* 1908 ,
* 1998 , Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation'', Derek Leebaert (editor), ''The Future of the Electronic Marketplace ,
(comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
* Addison
* 1996 , James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series ,
* 2010 , Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why , John Wiley & Sons, US,
* 2010 , , I Came to Say Goodbye ,
* 2012 , Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures , HarperCollins (New Zealand),
(obsolete) To transport or ravish.
(obsolete) To carry away by force.
(obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
(obsolete) rapidity
Serene is a related term of rapt.
As verbs the difference between serene and rapt
is that serene is while rapt is (obsolete) to transport or ravish.As an adjective rapt is
(uncomparable|archaic) snatched, taken away; abducted.As a noun rapt is
(obsolete) an ecstasy; a trance.serene
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- Serene , smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.
- Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
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Verb
(seren)- Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raise his being, and serene his soul. — Thomson.
Noun
(en noun)- the serene of heaven
- To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene .
- Some serene blast me.
Etymology 2
(etyl) suffix.Synonyms
*References
* Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1. ----rapt
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
- From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
- The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
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- It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
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- Her expression grew more rapt ; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:.
- The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt , transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.
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- He was rapt with his exam results.
- I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
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- Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
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- Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.
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- One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt' to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more ' rapt .
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- These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Drayton)
- (Daniel)
Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Morton)
- (Sir Thomas Browne)