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Ongoing vs Continuingly - What's the difference?

ongoing | continuingly |

As an adjective ongoing

is continuing, permanent.

As a noun ongoing

is something that is going on; a happening.

As an adverb continuingly is

in a manner that is ongoing.

ongoing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • continuing, permanent
  • presently or currently happening; being in progress

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is going on; a happening.
  • * 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
    • We shall not be concerned here with the specific electrical or chemical changes that take place, but only with the fact of continuous ongoings as one of the elements for building a format of dynamic structure.

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    continuingly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a manner that is ongoing.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 29, author=Douglas Martin, title=D. D. Ryan, Fashionable Godmother to ‘Eloise,’ Dies at 79, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The result was “Eloise,” published in 1955 and a best seller the next year, and its continuingly popular sequels. }}