What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Facial vs Labial - What's the difference?

facial | labial |

As adjectives the difference between facial and labial

is that facial is of or affecting the face while labial is of or pertaining to the lips or labia.

As nouns the difference between facial and labial

is that facial is a personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face while labial is (linguistics) a labial consonant.

facial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or affecting the face.
  • Coordinate terms

    *

    Noun

    (facial) (en noun)
  • A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
  • (film) A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
  • * 2004 , Simon Popple, ?Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory (page 92)
  • But in facials , moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details
  • (slang, in some contact sports) A which involves one player hitting another in the face.
  • (vulgar, slang) A sex act of male ejaculation onto another person's face.
  • He gave his wife a creamy facial.

    Derived terms

    * facial cream * facial expression * facial feature * facial hair * facial nerve * facial profiling ----

    labial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the lips or labia
  • (linguistics) articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w
  • (dentistry) Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.
  • (music) Furnished with lips.
  • a labial organ pipe

    Derived terms

    * postlabial * prelabial

    Coordinate terms

    * * (linguistics) coronal, dorsal, radical, laryngeal

    Noun

    (labial consonant) (en noun)
  • (linguistics) a labial consonant
  • (music) an organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound
  • Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
  • Hyponyms

    * (linguistics) bilabial, labiodental

    Derived terms

    * labial artery * labial consonant * labial geyser * labial-alveolar consonant * labial-palatal approximant * labial-palatal consonant * bilabial click