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Constraining vs Limiting - What's the difference?

constraining | limiting |

As verbs the difference between constraining and limiting

is that constraining is while limiting is .

As nouns the difference between constraining and limiting

is that constraining is the act by which something is constrained while limiting is a limitation.

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.

    limiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A limitation.
  • * 1846 , George Frederick Simmons, Letter to the So-called "Boston Churches" (page 19)
    • After the discoveries of criticism, the new reverence for the Bible will teach one thing, and that namely which has been my theme, — how much deeper the truth that is in Christ lies than the errors and limitings of the understanding