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Overpowering vs Spellbinding - What's the difference?

overpowering | spellbinding | Related terms |

Overpowering is a related term of spellbinding.


As adjectives the difference between overpowering and spellbinding

is that overpowering is that overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming while spellbinding is engrossing, fascinating, gaining rapt attention.

As a verb overpowering

is .

overpowering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}

    spellbinding

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • engrossing, fascinating, gaining rapt attention.