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Diverse vs Differing - What's the difference?

diverse | differing |

As an adjective diverse

is consisting of many different elements; various.

As an adverb diverse

is in different directions; diversely.

As a verb differing is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun differing is

difference.

diverse

English

Alternative forms

* divers (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Consisting of many different elements; various.
  • Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
  • * J. Edwards
    • The word is used in a sense very diverse from its original import.
  • * R. Browning
    • Our roads are diverse : farewell, love! said she.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
  • Capable of various forms; multiform.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Eloquence is a great and diverse thing.

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In different directions; diversely.

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    differing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • difference
  • * 1983 , Robert Bator, Signposts to criticism of children's literature
    • I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each
  • * 2007 , Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
    • It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values