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Losing vs Forgetting - What's the difference?

losing | forgetting |

As nouns the difference between losing and forgetting

is that losing is the act by which something is lost while forgetting is the mental act by which something is forgotten.

As verbs the difference between losing and forgetting

is that losing is while forgetting is .

As an adjective losing

is that loses or lose, or has or have lost.

losing

English

Adjective

(-)
  • That loses or lose, or has or have lost.
    • Being on the losing team is disappointing.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is lost.
  • * 1842 , The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (page 339)
    • We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    forgetting

    English

    (wikipedia forgetting)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mental act by which something is forgotten.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • Jelliffe how it was possible for an illness which had been described unmistakably innumerable times to be 'forgotten' anew by each generation. Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are mysterious, for they give us an unwarranted sense of security.