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Festering vs Lingering - What's the difference?

festering | lingering |

As verbs the difference between festering and lingering

is that festering is while lingering is .

As nouns the difference between festering and lingering

is that festering is the condition of something that festers while lingering is an act of lingering or waiting.

festering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of something that festers.
  • * 1842 , Bradshaw's Journal (volume 3, page 89)
    • discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.

    lingering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of lingering or waiting.
  • * 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
    • But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
  • That which lingers; a remnant.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.