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Trinity vs Trilogy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between trinity and trilogy

is that trinity is a group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine while trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

As a proper noun Trinity

is in Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

trinity

English

Noun

(trinities)
  • A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity , earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • The state of being three; threeness.
  • Synonyms

    * (group of three) threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate * threeness

    Derived terms

    * nontrinitarian * nontrinitarianism * trinitarian

    See also

    * Trinity * Trinity College * quaternity * Unitarian

    trilogy

    Noun

    (trilogies)
  • A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy ’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.