Solace vs Recreate - What's the difference?

Solace is a related term of recreate.

In lang=en terms the difference between solace and recreate

is that solace is to take comfort; to be cheered while recreate is to take recreation.

As verbs the difference between solace and recreate

is that solace is to give solace to; comfort; cheer; console while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.

As a noun solace

is comfort or consolation in a time of distress.

solace

English

Noun

Comfort or consolation in a time of distress.

You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace .

A source of comfort or consolation.

* Rambler

The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

Synonyms

* comfort * consolation * relief * support

Derived terms

* solaceful * solacement

Verb

(solac)

To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

To allay or assuage.

To take comfort; to be cheered.

* 1593 , , IV. v. 48:

But one thing to rejoice and solace in, / And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.

Anagrams

recreate

English

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.

Verb

(recreat)

To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.

* Dryden

Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.

* Dr H. More

These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.

(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.

*, II.ii.3:

In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.

* Jeremy Taylor

St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge

To take recreation.

Etymology 2

From re-'' + ''create .

Verb

(recreat)

To create anew.