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Eerie vs Unsettling - What's the difference?

eerie | unsettling |

As adjectives the difference between eerie and unsettling

is that eerie is strange, weird, fear-inspiring while unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

As a verb unsettling is

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As a noun unsettling is

the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

eerie

English

Alternative forms

* eery

Adjective

(er)
  • strange, weird, fear-inspiring.
    • The eerie sounds seemed to come from the graveyard after midnight.
  • (Scotland) fearful, timid.
  • * 1883 , George MacDonald, Donal Grant
    • She began to feel eerie .

    Synonyms

    * See also * creepy, spooky

    Derived terms

    * eerily (adverb) * eeriness (noun) * eerisome

    unsettling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
  • * 2013 , Krishna Sen, ?Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (page 19)
    • But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.