As verbs the difference between looming and lingering
is that
looming is while
lingering is .
As nouns the difference between looming and lingering
is that
looming is the condition of something that looms or towers while
lingering is an act of lingering or waiting.
looming English
Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
The condition of something that looms or towers.
* (Thomas Carlyle)
- But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him,
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lingering English
Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
An act of lingering or waiting.
* 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
- But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
That which lingers; a remnant.
* (Washington Irving)
- The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.
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