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Cloying vs Closing - What's the difference?

cloying | closing |

As verbs the difference between cloying and closing

is that cloying is while closing is .

As adjectives the difference between cloying and closing

is that cloying is unpleasantly excessive while closing is coming after all others.

As a noun closing is

the act by which something is closed.

cloying

English

Verb

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    • 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

    closing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is closed.
    • openings and closings of doors
  • The end or conclusion of something
    • The closing of the curtains.
  • The final procedure in a house sale when documents are signed and recorded.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Coming after all others.

    • Verb

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