Advent vs. Invention — What's the Difference?

Advent is a season of the liturgical year observed in most Christian denominations as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the Nativity of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming. Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity, and is part of the wider Christmas and holiday season.

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.

The coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note

The action of inventing something, typically a process or device

The liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November, and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence.

The act or process of inventing

The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.

A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation

See Second Coming.

A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.

Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears

Skill in inventing; inventiveness

The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

(Music) A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

A discovery; a finding.

Coming; any important arrival; approach.

Something invented.

Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous);

The act of inventing.

The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

The capacity to invent.

(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

(archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention; she patented five inventions.

Thought; idea.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.

The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.

The creation of something in the mind

A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

The act of inventing