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Clinging vs Clenching - What's the difference?

clinging | clenching |

As verbs the difference between clinging and clenching

is that clinging is while clenching is .

As nouns the difference between clinging and clenching

is that clinging is the act of one who clings while clenching is the act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc) is clenched.

clinging

English

(wikipedia clinging)

Verb

(head)

    • Synonyms

    * (noun) * (adjective)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who clings.
  • * 2013 , Lawrence C. Becker, ?Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics (page 217)
    • The mind ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings , and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.

    clenching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something (a fist, a jaw, etc.) is clenched.
  • * 1965 , Edward J. Murray, Sleep, dreams, and arousal (page 151)
    • Many of the clenchings [of muscles] were uncoordinated, and one would guess that they occurred more and more as the sleep synchronized.