Blooming vs. Flourishing — What's the Difference?

Used as an intensive

Flourishing is "when people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time," living "within an optimal range of human functioning." It is a descriptor and measure of positive mental health and overall life well-being, and includes multiple components and concepts, such as cultivating strengths, subjective well-being, "goodness, generativity, growth, and resilience." Flourishing is the opposite of both pathology and languishing, which are described as living a life that feels hollow and empty. It is a central concept in positive psychology, developed by Corey Keyes and Barbara Fredrickson.

Present participle of bloom

To grow well or luxuriantly; thrive

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

To do or fare well; prosper

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

To be in a period of highest productivity, excellence, or influence

Bloody; bleeding; extremely.

To make bold, sweeping movements

Bloody; bleeding; extremely.

To wield, wave, or exhibit dramatically.

The act by which something blooms.

A dramatic or stylish movement, as of waving or brandishing

(metallurgy) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

An embellishment or ornamentation

(photography) A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.

An ostentatious act or gesture

The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

(Music) A showy or ceremonious passage, such as a fanfare.

Opening in blossoms; flowering.

Growing, thriving, doing well

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Present participle of flourish

The organic process of bearing flowers;

The action of the verb flourish; flowering.

(used of persons) informal intensifiers;

Having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life;

Very lively and profitable;