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Keening vs Keeping - What's the difference?

keening | keeping |

As nouns the difference between keening and keeping

is that keening is intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake while keeping is conformity or harmony.

As verbs the difference between keening and keeping

is that keening is while keeping is .

As an adjective keening

is sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.

keening

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.
    • ''The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge"

    Noun

  • Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake
  • (by extension) An unpleasant sound.

    • Verb

    (head)

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    keeping

    English

    Noun

  • conformity or harmony.
    • The songs are new but in keeping with tradition.
    The foreground of this painting is not in keeping .
  • charge or care.
  • * South
    • His happiness is in his own keeping .
  • Maintenance; support; provision; feed.
    • The cattle have good keeping .
  • * Milton
    • the work of many hands, which earns my keeping

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * in keeping with

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