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Purgatory vs Underworld - What's the difference?

purgatory | underworld |

As nouns the difference between purgatory and underworld

is that purgatory is in Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven while underworld is that part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.

As an adjective purgatory

is tending to cleanse; expiatory.

purgatory

English

(wikipedia purgatory)

Noun

  • (theology) In Catholicism, the stage of the afterlife where souls suffer for their sins before they can enter heaven
  • any situation causing suffering

    • Derived terms

    * purgatorial

    See also

    * heaven * hell * limbo

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to cleanse; expiatory.
    • (Burke)

    underworld

    English

    (wikipedia underworld)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
  • (mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

    • Synonyms

    * (world of the dead) netherworld

    See also

    * Hades, Tartarus * hell * Hel, Niflheim, Niflhel * Gehenna