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Brooding vs Remorse - What's the difference?

brooding | remorse |

As nouns the difference between brooding and remorse

is that brooding is a spell of brooding; the time when someone broods while remorse is a feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.

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.}}

    remorse

    English

    (wikipedia remorse)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

  • A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
  • * 1897 , ,"
    • Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.
  • (obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
  • * 1597 , , King John , act 4, sc. 3,
    • This is the bloodiest shame,
    The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
    That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
    Presented to the tears of soft remorse .

    Synonyms

    * (regret or sadness for doing wrong) agenbite, compunction, contrition, penitence, repentance, self-reproach * See also

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from "remorse") * buyer's remorse * remorseless

    Related terms

    (Terms related to "remorse") * remorseful * remorsefully * remorseless * remorselessly

    Hypernyms

    * regret, sadness

    See also

    * apology