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Flinging vs Clinging - What's the difference?

flinging | clinging |

As verbs the difference between flinging and clinging

is that flinging is while clinging is .

As nouns the difference between flinging and clinging

is that flinging is the act by which something is flung while clinging is the act of one who clings.

flinging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is flung.
  • * (Thomas Hardy), A Laodicean

    • clinging

    English

    (wikipedia clinging)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Synonyms

    * (noun) * (adjective)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who clings.
  • * 2013 , Lawrence C. Becker, ?Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics (page 217)
    • The mind ascribes characters to things. It can become attached in the process, the attachment taking such forms as erroneous thoughts and clingings , and the Buddha-nature thereby becomes defiled in the way that the sun may be obscured by clouds or a mirror by dust.