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Exiting vs Departing - What's the difference?

exiting | departing |

As verbs the difference between exiting and departing

is that exiting is while departing is .

As nouns the difference between exiting and departing

is that exiting is the action of the verb to exit while departing is the act by which somebody or something departs.

As an adjective departing is

that is leaving.

exiting

English

Verb

(head)
  • (erroneous )

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The action of the verb to exit .
  • (erroneous )

    • departing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that is leaving
    • a departing train
  • while leaving
    • departing words

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody or something departs.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

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