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Gripping vs Spellbinding - What's the difference?

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Gripping is a related term of spellbinding.


As adjectives the difference between gripping and spellbinding

is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating while spellbinding is engrossing, fascinating, gaining rapt attention.

As a verb gripping

is .

As a noun gripping

is (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines).

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

    spellbinding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • engrossing, fascinating, gaining rapt attention.