Investiture vs. Investment — What's the Difference?

Investiture (from the Latin preposition in and verb vestire, "dress" from vestis "robe"), is the formal installation or ceremony in which a person is given the authority and regalia of a high office. Investiture can include formal dress and adornment such as robes of state or headdress, or other regalia such as a throne or seat of office.

To invest is to allocate money with the expectation of a positive benefit/return in the future. In other words, to invest means owning an asset or an item with the goal of generating income from the investment or the appreciation of your investment which is an increase in the value of the asset over a period of time.

The act or formal ceremony of conferring the authority and symbols of a high office.

The act of investing.

An adornment or cover.

An amount invested.

The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.

Property or another possession acquired for future financial return or benefit.

The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general.

A commitment, as of time or support.

That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.

A military siege.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the state of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.

Investiture.

Livery of seizin.

A garment; a vestment.

That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.

An outer covering or layer.

The ceremony of installing a new monarch

The act of investing, or state of being invested.

The ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank

(finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.

(obsolete) A vestment.

(military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.

A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.

The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.

The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; also, the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.

The act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit

Money that is invested with an expectation of profit

Outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism

The act of putting on robes or vestments

The ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank