Listening vs Remembering - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between listening and remembering

is that listening is action of the verb listening while remembering is the act by which something is remembered.

As verbs the difference between listening and remembering

is that listening is while remembering is .

As an adjective listening

is of something or someone that listens.

listening

English

Adjective

(-)

Of something or someone that listens.

Any listening person can tell she's lying.

Of something that is used in order to hear or to improve the ability to hear.

He could hear better when he used his listening device.

Of an action that is performed with caution and attention to sounds.

The safest cover lay close under the wall of the cañon, and here through the dense thickets Venters made his slow, listening advance toward the oval.

Noun

(en noun)

Action of the verb listening

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}

Skill or ability of perceiving spoken language.

Verb

(head)

Derived terms

* listening post * listening station

Anagrams

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remembering

English

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

The act by which something is remembered.

* (Marita Sturken)

The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings , to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans.