Answering vs Responding - What's the difference?
answering | responding |
The act of giving an answer.
* 1923 , John Cann Bailey, The Continuity of Letters (page 107)
response
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
As verbs the difference between answering and responding
is that answering is while responding is .As nouns the difference between answering and responding
is that answering is the act of giving an answer while responding is response.answering
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- An answer that comes out of the whirlwind is, logically, no answer at all: it belongs to a world above that of logical answerings .
responding
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Nor were their ardent hopes disappointed; for in a short time the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
