Sol vs. Soul — What's the Difference?

The fifth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.

In many religious, philosophical, and mythological traditions, the soul is the incorporeal essence of a living being. Soul or psyche (Ancient Greek: ψυχή psykhḗ, of ψύχειν psýkhein, "to breathe", cf.

An old French coin worth 12 deniers.

The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

See Table at currency.

Emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance

A colloidal solution.

The essence or embodiment of a specified quality

The sun.

A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

(music)

This part of a human when disembodied after death.

In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.

In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).

In a fixed-do system: the musical note G.

A human

(historical) An old coin from France and some other countries worth 12 deniers.

A person considered as the embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification

(historical) A former Spanish-American silver coin.

A person's emotional or moral nature

In full nuevo sol or new sol: the main currency unit of Peru which replaced the inti in 1991; also, a coin of this value.

The central or integral part; the vital core

(astronomy) A solar day on the planet Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).

A sense of emotional strength or spiritual vitality held to derive from black and especially African American cultural experience, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.

(physical chemistry) A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.

Strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, performer, or artist

(obsolete) A solution to an objection (or "ob"), for example, in controversial divinity.

Soul music.

The sun.

The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality, often believed to live on after the person's death.

Gold; - so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.

The spirit or essence of anything.

A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.

Life, energy, vigor.

A sou.

(music) Soul music.

A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.

A person, especially as one among many.

A fluid mixture of a colloid and a liquid; a liquid colloidal solution or suspension.

An individual life.

A colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid

(math) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.

(Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios

To endow with a soul or mind.

The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization

To beg on All Soul's Day.

(obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

Sole.

By or for African-Americans, or characteristic of their culture; as, soul music; soul newspapers; soul food.

To afford suitable sustenance.

To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; - sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; - sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; - sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."

The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

A human being; a person; - a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

A pure or disembodied spirit.

A perceived shared community and awareness among African-Americans.

Soul music.

The immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life

A human being;

Deep feeling or emotion

The human embodiment of something;

A secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s;