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Comforting vs Calming - What's the difference?

comforting | calming |

As verbs the difference between comforting and calming

is that comforting is while calming is .

As an adjective comforting

is giving comfort.

As a noun comforting

is the act of giving comfort.

comforting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Giving comfort.
    • Your comforting words help ease my mind.
    It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving comfort.
  • * 1836 , Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)
    • Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea

    calming

    English

    Verb

    (head)