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Fading vs Decaying - What's the difference?

fading | decaying |

As verbs the difference between fading and decaying

is that fading is while decaying is .

As nouns the difference between fading and decaying

is that fading is the act of something that fades; gradual diminishment while decaying is the act of something that decays.

fading

English

Verb

(head)
  • .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-19, volume=409, issue=8858, magazine=(The Economist), author=Banyan
    • , title= The meaning of Sachin , passage=With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that fades; gradual diminishment.
  • * 1854 , (Herman Melville), (Israel Potter)
  • (obsolete) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Fading is a fine jig.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • delicate burthens of dildos and fadings
    (Webster 1913)

    decaying

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that decays.
  • * 1839 , William Jenkyn, ?James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
    • Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.