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Endearing vs Fetching - What's the difference?

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Endearing is a related term of fetching.


As adjectives the difference between endearing and fetching

is that endearing is inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way while fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard.

As verbs the difference between endearing and fetching

is that endearing is while fetching is .

As nouns the difference between endearing and fetching

is that endearing is endearment while fetching is the act by which something is fetched.

endearing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endearment
  • * (Jack London)
    • It was arms around, and perpetual endearings , and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.

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    fetching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • * 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
    • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=6
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fetched.
  • * 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
    • These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.