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Disconcerting vs Disquieting - What's the difference?

disconcerting | disquieting |

As adjectives the difference between disconcerting and disquieting

is that disconcerting is tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting while disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

As a verb disquieting is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun disquieting is

the act by which someone or something is disquieted.

disconcerting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
    • Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."

    disquieting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
  • * Edward Reynolds
    • Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience