As nouns the difference between expectoration and spitting
is that expectoration is the action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting while spitting is expectoration.
As a verb spitting is
present participle of lang=en.
expectoration
English
Noun
(en-noun)
The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
spitting
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
(chiefly, archaic, medicine) expectoration
* 1837 , James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31 (page 44)
- Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting ; all of them were stone-workers.