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Cloying vs Noncloying - What's the difference?

cloying | noncloying |

As adjectives the difference between cloying and noncloying

is that cloying is unpleasantly excessive while noncloying is not cloying.

As a verb cloying

is .

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

    noncloying

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not cloying.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 2, author=Nate Chinen, title=That Ticking Sound? It’s Beck’s New Single, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=He and his partners, the trumpeter Marvin Stamm and the cellist Alisa Horn, manage to imbue the material with a noncloying kind of romance. }}