different between largesse vs benefaction

English

Alternative forms

• largess

Etymology

French largesse, Old French largesce

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l?????s/, /l???d??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l???d??s/, /l?????s/

Noun

largesse (plural largesses)

1. (uncountable) Generosity in the giving of gifts or money.

   Synonyms: benevolence, generosity, graciousness, boon

   Antonyms: niggardliness, tight fistedness

2. The gifts or money given in such a way.
3. A benevolent demeanor.

Translations

Anagrams

• Glaesers, eelgrass, gearless, rageless

French

Etymology

From Old French largesce, corresponding to large +? -esse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?.??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

largesse f (plural largesses)

1. largess; financial generosity

Further reading

• “largesse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• réglasse

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?n??fak?(?)n/

Noun

benefaction (countable and uncountable, plural benefactions)

1. 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.

2. An act of charity; almsgiving.

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