Difference between Faun and Satyr

What is the difference between Faun and Satyr?

Faun as a noun is a woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. while Satyr as a noun is a male companion of pan or dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.

Faun

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

Satyr

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A male companion of Pan or Dionysus with the tail of a horse and a perpetual erection.A faun.A lecherous manAny of various butterflies of the family Satyridae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots.

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