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Looming vs Glooming - What's the difference?

looming | glooming |

As verbs the difference between looming and glooming

is that looming is present participle of lang=en while glooming is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between looming and glooming

is that looming is the condition of something that looms or towers while glooming is twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming.

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,

    glooming

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • * D. H. Lawrence
    • Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.

    Etymology 2

    Compare (gloaming).

    Noun

  • twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming
    • When the faint glooming in the sky / First lightened into day. — Trench.
    The balmy glooming , crescent-lit. — Tennyson.