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Believing vs Receiving - What's the difference?

believing | receiving |

As verbs the difference between believing and receiving

is that believing is present participle of lang=en while receiving is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between believing and receiving

is that believing is belief while receiving is the act by which something is received; reception.

believing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • belief
  • * 2004 , Dermot Moran, ?Lester E. Embree, Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (volume 2, page 337)
    • Some believings are believings with simple certainty; others are more or less uncertain; still others are believings with a reassured certainty, perhaps after a time during which they were uncertain.

    receiving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is received; reception.
  • * Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
    • Those that are received graciously may, and must, render the calves of their lips — poor returns for rich receivings , yet, if sincere, more acceptable than the calves of the stall.