different between venial vs veniality

English

Etymology

From Old French venial, from Late Latin veni?lis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?ni.?l/

Adjective

venial (comparative more venial, superlative most venial)

1. Pardonable; able to be forgiven.

   a venial sin

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man

     He did not say that he should favour such an attempt; But he did say that such an attempt would be venial.

2. Excusable; trifling

   His venial youthful indiscretions.

Usage notes

Venial behavior (mildly wrong behavior) is not to be confused with venal behavior (bribery/corruption).

Antonyms

• (pardonable): mortal

Translations

Anagrams

• Lavine, alevin, alvine, leavin', valine, veinal, vineal

Old French

Alternative forms

• veniel

Adjective

venial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular veniale)

1. venial

Descendants

• ? English: venial

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Late Latin veni?lis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

Adjective

venial

1. venial

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin veni?lis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veni?aw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v??nja?/

Adjective

venial m or f (plural veniais, comparable)

1. venial (pardonable; able to be forgiven)
2. venial (excusable; trifling)

Synonyms

• perdoável

Further reading

• “venial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin veni?lis (“pardonable”), from Latin venia (“forgiveness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?njal/, [be?njal]
• Hyphenation: ve?nial

Adjective

venial (plural veniales)

1. venial, petty

Further reading

• “venial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

venial +? -ity

Noun

veniality (countable and uncountable, plural venialities)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being venial (pardonable).

   Synonym: venialness
2. (countable) A venial (pardonable) action or an instance of venial behaviour.

   Synonym: peccadillo

Usage notes

Do not confuse veniality (“mildly wrong behavior”) with venality (“bribability/corruptibility”).

Translations