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Wistfully vs Blissfully - What's the difference?

wistfully | blissfully |

As adverbs the difference between wistfully and blissfully

is that wistfully is in a wistful manner while blissfully is in a blissful, happy or joyful manner.

wistfully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a wistful manner.

    • blissfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a blissful, happy or joyful manner.
  • * 1834 Heman Humphrey - Miscellaneous Discourses and Reviews
    • What changes will be wrought in the character and condition of mankind, as the millennium advances and rolls blissfully away.
  • * 2000 Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee - Love Is a Fire: A Sufi's Mystical Journey Home
    • I walked the blissfully painful path of human love with intoxication and tears, always knowing that love's essence was elsewhere, hidden and yet addictively present.