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Gripping vs Beguiling - What's the difference?

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Gripping is a related term of beguiling.


As adjectives the difference between gripping and beguiling

is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating while beguiling is that beguiles or beguile.

As verbs the difference between gripping and beguiling

is that gripping is while beguiling is .

As nouns the difference between gripping and beguiling

is that gripping is (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines) while beguiling is a beguilement.

gripping

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
  • * 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
    • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite

    beguiling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beguilement.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That beguiles or beguile.
  • * a beguiling look
  • * 2009 , , The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet , Pinguin Books, page 26:
    • I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?