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Jarring vs Marring - What's the difference?

jarring | marring |

As verbs the difference between jarring and marring

is that jarring is while marring is .

As nouns the difference between jarring and marring

is that jarring is an act of jarring (in any sense) while marring is something that mars or spoils; a blemish.

As an adjective jarring

is that jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.

jarring

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of jarring (in any sense).
    • The jarring of peaches took place at the end of the season.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That jars (clashes or disagrees); incongruous, conflictful.
    • (Dryden)

    marring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
  • * Samuel R. Delany,
    • Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.