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Cloning vs Cloying - What's the difference?

cloning | cloying |

As verbs the difference between cloning and cloying

is that cloning is while cloying is .

As a noun cloning

is (biology) the production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum.

As an adjective cloying is

unpleasantly excessive.

cloning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia cloning)
  • (biology) The production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum
  • (by extension) The production of an exact copy of an object

    • cloying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unpleasantly excessive.
    • The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
  • * August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, " Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
    • It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
  • Excessively sweet.

    • Synonyms

    * (unpleasantly excessive) exaggerated * (excessively sweet) syrupy, treacly

    Derived terms

    * cloyingly