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Murmuration vs Susurration - What's the difference?

murmuration | susurration |

As nouns the difference between murmuration and susurration

is that murmuration is an act or instance of murmuring while susurration is a low, indistinct continuous whispering sound; a murmur.

murmuration

English

(wikipedia murmuration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act or instance of murmuring.
  • A flock of starlings.

    • External links

    * Example of starling murmuration from YouTube.

    susurration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (en) a low, indistinct continuous whispering sound; a murmur
  • * by Ambrose Bierce
  • *:The rain was now falling more steadily, with a low, monotonous susurration , interrupted at long intervals by the sudden slashing of the boughs of the trees as the wind rose and failed.
  • *1965 Dune by Frank Herbert
  • *:Halleck nodded, heard the faint susurration and felt the air shift as a lockport swung open beside him.
  • *2004 Oct 17, Laura Cumming, in . From a whisper to a scream
  • *:Coming in feels almost like going out - an audible breeze threatening to swell into a blizzard, waves breaking and withdrawing, the open air tuned to so many sounds that your own are absorbed in the rise and fall of murmurs, shouts, susurrations , plosives, stutters and echoes - and above them all, like Prospero, the voice of the artist humming to himself as if thinking (or not thinking) aloud.