Carnation vs. Incarnation — What's the Difference?

A double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with grey-green leaves and showy pink, white, or red flowers.

Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient being who is the material manifestation of an entity, god, spiritual or universal force whose original nature is immaterial.

A rosy pink colour

The act of incarnating.

Any of numerous cultivated forms of a perennial plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) having showy, variously colored, usually double, often fragrant flowers with fringed petals.

The condition of being incarnated.

A flower of this plant. Also called clove pink.

Incarnation(Christianity) The doctrine that the Son of God was conceived in the womb of Mary and that Jesus is true God and true man.

A pinkish tint once used in painting.

A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being.

A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.

One who is believed to personify a given abstract quality or idea.

Originally, Dianthus caryophyllus

A period of time passed in a given bodily form or condition

Other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids

An incarnate being or form.

The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.

A version or iteration (of something).

A rosy pink colour

A living being embodying a deity or spirit.

(archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh

An assumption of human form or nature.

A scarlet colour.

A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

Of a rosy pink or red colour.

The act of incarnating.

(archaic) Of a human flesh color.

The state of being incarnated.

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.

(obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.

Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

A species of Dianthus (Dianthus Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

A pink or reddish-pink color

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.

Having the color of a carnation

A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

A new personification of a familiar idea;

(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ

Time passed in a particular bodily form;

The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.