different between benefaction vs liberality

English

From Latin benefacti?nem, from benefacere (“to benefit”).

benefaction (countable and uncountable, plural benefactions)

An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
- 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 70:
  We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [transl. Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.
An act of charity; almsgiving.

From Middle English liberalite, from Old French liberalité, from Latin l?ber?lit?s (“a noble, kind, or friendly disposition; generosity”).

liberality (usually uncountable, plural liberalities)

The property of being liberal; generosity; charity.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Justice (poem)
  That liberality is but cast away / Which makes us borrow what we cannot pay.
A gift; a gratuity.
A prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.
Candor.
Impartiality.

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