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Compelling vs Constraining - What's the difference?

compelling | constraining |

As verbs the difference between compelling and constraining

is that compelling is present participle of lang=en while constraining is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective compelling

is requiring urgent attention.

As a noun constraining is

the act by which something is constrained.

compelling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Requiring urgent attention.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on.}}
  • Forceful.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal , passage=Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.}}

    Related terms

    * compel * compellingly

    constraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is constrained.
  • * 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
    • In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.