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Brooding vs Broodiness - What's the difference?

brooding | broodiness |

As nouns the difference between brooding and broodiness

is that brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods while broodiness is the state of being broody.

As an adjective brooding

is (of a bird) broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.

As a verb brooding

is .

brooding

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a bird) Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them.
    • A brooding hen can be aggressive.
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
    • You like T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"? You must be so brooding and deep .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 22, author=Jon Caramanica, title=Once-Dreamy Indie Rockers, Masking Hurt With High-Gloss Sheen, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The lyrics are different: gone are the dreamy, un-self-conscious proclamations of affection from the EP (which was reissued with additional tracks), replaced with vividly dark broodings , thick with doubt and fear.}}

    broodiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being broody
  • * {{quote-news, year=1998, date=March 6, author=Cecil Adams, title=The Straight Dope, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 13, author=Ted Shen, title=Composing Women, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Bohmes Liebeslied, for flute and piano, is arresting in its low-key broodiness ; Bittersweet Music I, its piccolo a lonely bird in its nervous twitters, continued the despairing mood. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Milo M. Hastings, title=The Dollar Hen, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When a hen shows signs of broodiness remove her to the sitting-room. }}