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Trinity vs Triplicity - What's the difference?

trinity | triplicity |

As nouns the difference between trinity and triplicity

is that trinity is a group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine while triplicity is the quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.

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

    triplicity

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or state of being triple or threefold; trebleness.
    • In their trinal triplicities on high. — Spenser.
    (Webster 1913)