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Confounding vs Blinding - What's the difference?

confounding | blinding |

As verbs the difference between confounding and blinding

is that confounding is present participle of lang=en while blinding is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between confounding and blinding

is that confounding is the act by which things are confounded, or confused while blinding is the act of causing blindness.

As an adjective blinding is

very bright (as if to cause blindness).

As an adverb blinding is

to an extreme degree; blindingly.

confounding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which things are confounded, or confused.

    • blinding

    English

    Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
  • Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
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  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Brilliant; marvellous.
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    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (neologism) To an extreme degree; blindingly.
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  • * {{quote-news, title=US Note Yields Near 4-Month High Before Durable Goods Report
    • , work=Bloomberg, date=May 24, year=2007, passage=Roger Yates, chief executive officer of Henderson Group Plc in London, which oversees about $125 billion said Greenspan's remarks were "blinding obvious".}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of causing blindness.
  • A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
  • A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.