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Fluttering vs Dancing - What's the difference?

fluttering | dancing |

As nouns the difference between fluttering and dancing

is that fluttering is rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation while dancing is the activity of taking part in a dance.

As verbs the difference between fluttering and dancing

is that fluttering is present participle of lang=en while dancing is present participle of lang=en.

fluttering

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
  • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite
  • * 1844 , Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life (page 59)
  • Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings , together with low clatterings, approached her ear.

    Verb

    (head)
  • dancing

    English

    Noun

  • The activity of taking part in a dance.
  • (historical) A dance club in France.
  • * 2001 , William A. Shack, Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars
  • New dancings pervaded the length and breadth of Montmartre in order to suit the taste of foreign patrons.
  • * 2003 , Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris (page 44)
  • Different dancings also attracted different crowds. Indeed, the diversity of dancers throughout the city makes drawing a detailed portrait of them difficult.

    Derived terms

    * belly dancing

    Verb

    (head)
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