What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Comforting vs Pampering - What's the difference?

comforting | pampering |

As verbs the difference between comforting and pampering

is that comforting is while pampering is .

As nouns the difference between comforting and pampering

is that comforting is the act of giving comfort while pampering is the act by which somebody is pampered.

As an adjective comforting

is giving comfort.

comforting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Giving comfort.
    • Your comforting words help ease my mind.
    It's comforting to know that I've always got my Mum when things go wrong.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving comfort.
  • * 1836 , Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England (page 269)
    • Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea

    pampering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is pampered.
  • * 1837 , Robert Plumer Ward, Illustrations of Human Life (page 104)
    • After all, hospitality is natural to man. Amid the ten thousand pamperings that attend upon wealth, it is forgotten, because we have not need for it; but it is only suspended, and the moment it is necessary, it revives.

    Anagrams

    *