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Glancing vs Staring - What's the difference?

glancing | staring |

As verbs the difference between glancing and staring

is that glancing is while staring is .

As nouns the difference between glancing and staring

is that glancing is a sideways look; a glance while staring is the act of one who stares.

As an adjective glancing

is making superficial, obtuse contact with something.

glancing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
    • His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sideways look; a glance.
  • * 1856 , David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?
    • No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy.

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    staring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stares.
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space

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