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Intriguing vs Gripping - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between intriguing and gripping

is that intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious while gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

As verbs the difference between intriguing and gripping

is that intriguing is present participle of lang=en while gripping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between intriguing and gripping

is that intriguing is {{cx|dated|lang=en}} An intrigue while gripping is obsolete form of lang=en pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

intriguing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

    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