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Mulling vs Musing - What's the difference?

mulling | musing |

As verbs the difference between mulling and musing

is that mulling is while musing is .

As nouns the difference between mulling and musing

is that mulling is the act of one who mulls or thinks over something while musing is thought, meditation, contemplation.

As an adjective musing is

absorbed in thought; contemplative.

mulling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who mulls or thinks over something.
  • * 2001 , Charles Stickney, World Enough: Travel Memoirs (page 333)
    • My mullings over where to go with my life, and now also where to go after Phuket island, incorporated what I saw in my everyday walks

    musing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Absorbed in thought; contemplative

    • Synonyms

    * broody * pensive * reflective

    Derived terms

    * musingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • thought, meditation, contemplation
    • ''daydreaming or imaginative musings .
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