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Loitering vs Creeping - What's the difference?

loitering | creeping |

As verbs the difference between loitering and creeping

is that loitering is while creeping is .

As nouns the difference between loitering and creeping

is that loitering is the action of the verb (loiter) while creeping is the act of something that creeps.

loitering

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • The action of the verb (loiter)
  • creeping

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that creeps.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
  • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite