As nouns the difference between ambition and achieving
is that
ambition is ambition for some particular achievement while
achieving is achievements, emphasizing the process of accomplishing them.
As a verb achieving is
.
ambition English
Noun
( en-noun)
(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
* Burke
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
* Milton
- [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Related terms
* ambience
* ambient
* ambit
* ambitious
* ambitionist
Verb
( en verb)
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
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achieving English
Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
achievements, emphasizing the process of accomplishing them.
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