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Cosseting vs Cosseted - What's the difference?

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Cosseting is a related term of cosseted.


As verbs the difference between cosseting and cosseted

is that cosseting is while cosseted is (cosset).

As a noun cosseting

is the act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.

As an adjective cosseted is

pampered.

cosseting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is cosseted or pampered.
  • * (Miss Read), The Caxley Chronicles
    • It was decided that she should go for a week or two to Rose Lodge to regain her strength, and submit to the welcome cossetings of her mother and grandmother.

    cosseted

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cossetted

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • pampered
    • a cosseted childhood
    a cosseted elite
    cosseted and pampered
    they are a pampered, cossetted bunch
    ''They have been pampered, cosseted , doted upon, helmeted.
    Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure.
  • * 2014 , Nicola Woolcock, Private pupils are cosseted, says Gove wife.] , [[w:The Times, The Times] from 6 March 2014
    • Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted , snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested.

    Usage notes

    The adjective cosseted is frequently written with two T’s: cossetted.

    Synonyms

    * spoiled * coddled

    Related terms

    * cosseting

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cosset)

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