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Staggering vs Bewildering - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between staggering and bewildering

is that staggering is present participle of lang=en while bewildering is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between staggering and bewildering

is that staggering is incredible, overwhelming, amazing while bewildering is very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.

As nouns the difference between staggering and bewildering

is that staggering is the motion of one who staggers while bewildering is bewilderment.

staggering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incredible, overwhelming, amazing.
    • The army suffered a staggering defeat.

    Derived terms

    * staggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of one who staggers.
  • * 1837 , Memoirs of Mirabeau'' (in ''The Westminster Review , volume 26, page 436)
    • There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings
  • That which staggers something or somebody.
  • * (Ebenezer Erskine)
    • But these doubts, and fears, and staggerings , although they may be in the believer, yet they are not in his faith; these things argue the infirmity of his faith, indeed; but under all this, faith is fighting for the victory

    bewildering

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
    • There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • bewilderment
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?