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Fluttering vs Flitting - What's the difference?

fluttering | flitting |

As nouns the difference between fluttering and flitting

is that fluttering is rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation while flitting is the motion of something that flits.

As verbs the difference between fluttering and flitting

is that fluttering is while flitting is .

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)

    • flitting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that flits.
    • the flittings of birds
  • (Scotland, northern England) The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
  • * 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 87:
    • Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting .