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Gushing vs Oozing - What's the difference?

gushing | oozing |

As verbs the difference between gushing and oozing

is that gushing is while oozing is .

As nouns the difference between gushing and oozing

is that gushing is the act or motion of something that gushes while oozing is something that oozes; a seepage.

As an adjective gushing

is flowing forth suddenly or violently.

gushing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Flowing forth suddenly or violently.
  • Inclined to gush; effusive.
    • a gushing tourist

    Derived terms

    * gushingly * gushingness

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or motion of something that gushes.
  • * 1866 , George Wyard
    • Oh, then what gushings forth of living water are seen to flow out from the smitten Rock!

    oozing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that oozes; a seepage.
  • * 1855 , Henry Stephens, John Stuart Skinner, The book of the farm (page 320)
    • A 12-acre field of good, deep land on the farm of Frenchlaw, in Berwickshire, was rendered swampy by springs and oozings of water from the surrounding rising ground being retained upon the clay subsoil.