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Fooling vs Lying - What's the difference?

fooling | lying |

As verbs the difference between fooling and lying

is that fooling is while lying is .

As nouns the difference between fooling and lying

is that fooling is the act of one who fools while lying is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

fooling

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who fools.
  • * Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality
    • I laugh at him and use every little Art in my power to make him view things in a more cheerful light, but he knows better than I do, and tho' his good nature and politeness make him appear to be diverted with my foolings , I am sensible they do not amuse his melancholy.

    lying

    English

    (wikipedia lying)

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?