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Devastating vs Shattering - What's the difference?

devastating | shattering |

As verbs the difference between devastating and shattering

is that devastating is while shattering is .

As an adjective devastating

is causing devastation.

As a noun shattering is

the act of something that shatters.

devastating

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • causing devastation

    • Verb

    (head)

    • shattering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that shatters.
  • * 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
    • It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)

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