Ongoing vs Perpetual - What's the difference?
ongoing | perpetual |
Something that is going on; a happening.
* 1961 , Floyd H. Allport, Theories of perception and the concept of structure
Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time
Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration
Continuing uninterrupted
Flowering throughout the growing season
* By means of artificial hybridization, practised for a series of years, he has succeeded in producing a race of carnations which are perpetual bloomers.
* The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.
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As adjectives the difference between ongoing and perpetual
is that ongoing is continuing, permanent while perpetual is lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.As a noun ongoing
is something that is going on; a happening.ongoing
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.