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Congestion vs Crowding - What's the difference?

congestion | crowding |

As nouns the difference between congestion and crowding

is that congestion is congestion while crowding is the act by which somebody is crowded.

As a verb crowding is

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congestion

English

(wikipedia congestion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
  • An excess of traffic.
  • (medicine) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
  • (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.

    • Derived terms

    * congestion charge or congestion pricing

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    crowding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is crowded.
  • * James T. Boulton
    • To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel