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Constraining vs Restricting - What's the difference?

constraining | restricting |

As verbs the difference between constraining and restricting

is that constraining is while restricting is .

As a noun constraining

is the act by which something is constrained.

As an adjective restricting is

serving to restrict.

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.

    restricting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • serving to restrict