What's the difference between lenitude and plenitude?
Lenitude
Definition:
(n.) The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.
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Plenitude
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.
(n.) Animal fullness; repletion; plethora.
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(1) They have also retrofitted old-style nationalism for their growing populations of uprooted citizens, who harbour yearnings for belonging and community as well as material plenitude.
(2) With respect to the first one, dialectic thinking would allow to understand vital history as the unfolding in time of a consciousness that is being splinted in contradictions of increasing tension up to its resolution in a failure (disease) or in a synthesis that implies a step forward in the maturation, plenitude or wisdom.
(3) (4) The traditional structures refer to the possibility of the mother imagining herself as completed by the child: the blocking of that illusion is associated with psychosis; the weakness of the desire, once established, demands, in the context of perversion, the presence of the figure of plenitude.
(4) The mavens of Madison Avenue tell us: “He who dies with the most toys wins.” So we measure self-worth by what we buy, going deeper in debt to project the perception of plenitude.
(5) Like many racists, Powell was nostalgic in his fantasies: before all this mixing, there was a time of clarity and plenitude, when Britishness was fixed and people knew who they were.
(6) Nor could the chosen diction of the American have been further from the socially diagnostic wit of Jane Austen or the stuffed-pudding plenitude of the young Dickens.
(7) The principle of plenitude and the paradigm of the "chain of Being" form the tie among the phenomena.
(8) With its velvet richness, it has always struck me as one of the greatest paintings in the National, and the polar opposite of The Death of Actaeon; to the modern eye, the Veronese can actually look too finished, almost Victorian in its plenitude.
(9) disease) or into a synthesis implying a step forward towards maturation, plenitude, or wisdom.