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Verdure vs Ardor - What's the difference?

verdure | ardor |

As nouns the difference between verdure and ardor

is that verdure is the greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself while ardor is great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.

verdure

English

Noun

  • The greenness of lush or growing vegetation; also : the vegetation itself.
  • * 1610 , , by Shakespeare
    • [...] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
    • The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
  • *
    • To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
  • (hence) A condition of health and vigour.

    • Related terms

    * verdant * verdurous

    ardor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ardour (chiefly British and Canadian)

    Noun

  • Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
  • Spirit.
  • Intense heat.

    • Synonyms

    * (warmth of feeling) intensity * (spirit) elan, fire in the belly, passion, zeal

    Antonyms

    * apathy

    Related terms

    () * ardent * ardency