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Answering vs Responsive - What's the difference?

answering | responsive |

As a verb answering

is .

As a noun answering

is the act of giving an answer.

As an adjective responsive is

answering, replying or responding.

answering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving an answer.
  • * 1923 , John Cann Bailey, The Continuity of Letters (page 107)
    • An answer that comes out of the whirlwind is, logically, no answer at all: it belongs to a world above that of logical answerings .

    responsive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Answering, replying or responding.
  • Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  • Using antiphons; antiphonal.
  • Susceptible to the feelings of others.
  • (obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
  • (obsolete) responsible
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Antonyms

    * nonresponsive * unresponsive

    Derived terms

    * responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----