Blessing
Blessing noun - Something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing.
Usage example: winning the lottery shortly after being laid off was an unexpected blessing
Gift is a synonym for blessing in advantage topic. In some cases you can use "Gift" instead a noun "Blessing", when it comes to topics like benefit.
Gift
Gift noun - Something given to someone without expectation of a return.
How words are described
| special | special blessing | special gift |
| particular | particular blessing | particular gift |
| similar | similar blessing | similar gift |
| specific | specific blessing | specific gift |
| Other adjectives: appropriate, original, divine, small, actual, real, huge, personal, extraordinary, unique, traditional, final, unexpected, amazing, greater, last, sacred, magical, biggest. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Articulated outright at one point thusly: David: We had a gift, a sense which, Michael complained bitterly, should have been a blessing, but was little better than a curse.
Source: Literature / The Chrysalids - Lycanthropy technically is a blessing, being a "gift" from the Daedric Prince of the Hunt Hircine that imbues a mortal with Hircine's power.
Source: Blessed With Suck / Video Games -
You get a unique blessing as a parting gift, though.
Source: Video Game / Hand Of Fate
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