What's the difference between elysian and elysium?

Elysian


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 44-year-old railroad worker grew up on the other side of the canal where Paris Avenue meets Treasure Street, a few blocks from Elysian Fields Avenue.
  • (2) On John Ruskin's wedding night , legend has it, the critic fainted on finding that – unlike the Elysian statues of his fantasies – women had body hair.
  • (3) A h, the Elysian fields of Brent Cross, I remember them well.
  • (4) And although those places would have been my idea of the Elysian fields, had someone described them to me as a child, really all I needed at that point in time was a shelf with books on it that I hadn’t read.

Elysium


Definition:

  • (n.) A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.
  • (n.) Hence, any delightful place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blomkamp’s last film, Elysium, felt in some ways like a Hollywoodised take on his breakthrough movie District 9, the introduction of A-list American stars substantially reducing the sense of grimy realism.
  • (2) Running in circles might become a bearable version of hell for a man banished from Elysium.
  • (3) From one perspective, this cover calls to mind illustrations found in The Watchtower, the Jehovah Witness house journal, in which perfect 1950s-style families picnic in Elysium fields surrounded by lions and lambs happily lying down with one another.
  • (4) And then within one year Oblivion came out, Elysium came out and Edge of Tomorrow came out, and all of a sudden Exo was in every holiday movie,” studio co-founder Michael Condrey told Eurogamer .

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