Difference between Emollient and Soft

What is the difference between Emollient and Soft?

Emollient as an adjective is moisturizing. while Soft as an adjective is giving way under pressure.

Emollient

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Moisturizing. Soothing or mollifying.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something which softens or lubricates the skin. Anything soothing the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.

Soft

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Giving way under pressure.Smooth and flexible.Gentle.Having an acute angle.Quiet.voiced, sonantvoicelesspalatalizedLacking strength or resolve, wimpy.Low in dissolved calcium compounds.(Northern British, colloquial) Foolish.Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (c.f. hard)

Example sentence: When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

We hope you now know whether to use Emollient or Soft in your sentence.

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