Among the strictest enthusiasts, labyrinth and maze are not synonymous: a maze is a pathfinding puzzle with loops and dead-ends; a labyrinth is a single, meandering path that leads the aspirant without difficulty from start to end. Commonly referred to as the classical or medieval labyrinth, the unicursal design has existed in coinage for over two thousand years and appears in medieval and Christian thought as a representation of the spiritual journey toward god. In most casual situations, you may treat the two words as synonyms. Even the Minotaur’s Labyrinth, which may be responsible for the word’s popularity, was by description more of a maze than a classical labyrinth.