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Soothing vs Lenitive - What's the difference?

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Soothing is a related term of lenitive.


As adjectives the difference between soothing and lenitive

is that soothing is tending to soothe while lenitive is analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.

As nouns the difference between soothing and lenitive

is that soothing is the act by which somebody is soothed while lenitive is an analgesic or other source of relief from pain.

As a verb soothing

is .

soothing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to soothe.
    • soothing music
  • Giving relief.
    • a soothing ointment
  • Freeing from fear or anxiety.
    • soothing words

    Derived terms

    * soothingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is soothed.
  • * 1823 , Charles Caleb Colton
    • There are moments when the brightest minds prefer the soothings of sympathy to all the brilliance of wit, as he that is in need of repose, selects a bed of feathers, rather than of flints.

    Anagrams

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    lenitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
  • (of a person) Mild; gentle.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
  • * {{quote-book, year=1688, author=David Hume, title=The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I, Part E, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It is now full time to free him from all these necessities, and to apply cordials and lenitives , after those severities which have already had their full course against him. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Upon the whole, as the author seems to share all the common miseries of life, he appears to partake likewise of its lenitives and abatements. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease. }} ----