different between sodalite vs sodality

English

Etymology

Named for the alkaline silicate composition.

Noun

sodalite (plural sodalites)

1. (mineralogy) A mineral of alkaline igneous and plutonic rocks that are low in silica, of the chemical composition of sodium aluminum silicate with chlorine, Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl. Pink sodalite is sometimes called hackmanite. Sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite Group of silicate minerals.

Related terms

• soda

Translations

See also

• silica group
• lazurite

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Sodalite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “sodalite”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

• altoside, diastole, diolates, elastoid, isolated, solidate

English

Etymology

From the French sodalité or its etymon, the Latin sod?lit?s, from sod?lis (“companion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s???dæl?ti/

Noun

sodality (plural sodalities)

1. A fraternity, a society or association.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     There’d even evolved somehow a kind of sodality or fan club that sat around, read from her books and discussed her Theory.

2. Companionship.
   • 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:

     Those would, he thought, be expatriate writers. He was, of course, one of those himself now, but he was indifferent to the duties and pleasures of sodality.

3. (Christianity) Spiritual communion with a divine being, a fellowship
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, p. 98:

     On the wall of his bedroom hung an illuminated scroll, the certificate of his prefecture in the college of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Translations

Anagrams

• stylodia