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Persisting vs Perseverating - What's the difference?

persisting | perseverating |

As verbs the difference between persisting and perseverating

is that persisting is while perseverating is .

As an adjective perseverating is

exhibiting perseveration; persisting, continuing.

persisting

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    perseverating

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    Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exhibiting perseveration; persisting, continuing.
  • *2011 , (David Bellos), Is That a Fish in Your Ear? , Penguin 2012, p. 120:
  • *:The uses in many Western languages of words meaning ‘word’ to refer to acts of speech are perseverating traces of primary orality.