Continuously vs Constantly - What's the difference?
continuously | constantly |
Without pause.
(archaic) With steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.
* , I.iv.1:
In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently.
(frequency) Recurring regularly.
In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case.
As adverbs the difference between continuously and constantly
is that continuously is without pause while constantly is with steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.continuously
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Adverb
(-)- The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
constantly
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Alternative forms
* constantlie * constauntlyAdverb
(en adverb)- Agrippa and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought himnot to offer violence unto himself, ‘with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it’; and so constantly died.
- I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets.