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Havering vs Hovering - What's the difference?

havering | hovering |

As verbs the difference between havering and hovering

is that havering is present participle of haver while hovering is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective havering

is hesitant; indecisive.

As a noun hovering is

the act of one who hovers.

havering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hesitant; indecisive.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 300:
  • *:Added to the obstacles which reforming ministers like Turgot [...] now had to face was the king's havering inconstancy.

    • hovering

    English

    (Hoverboard)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who hovers.
  • * (Henry James)
    • Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.