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Itching vs Stinging - What's the difference?

itching | stinging |

As verbs the difference between itching and stinging

is that itching is present participle of lang=en while stinging is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between itching and stinging

is that itching is a sensation that itches while stinging is the act by which someone receives a sting.

As an adjective stinging is

having the capacity to sting.

itching

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that itches.
  • * 1856 , Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology (page 71)
    • Itchings , hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.

    stinging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the capacity to sting.
    • stinging nettles

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone receives a sting.
    • the stingings of scorpions
    stingings of remorse