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Hungering vs Pining - What's the difference?

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Hungering is a related term of pining.


As nouns the difference between hungering and pining

is that hungering is the condition of one who hungers while pining is torture.

As a verb hungering

is .

hungering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of one who hungers.
  • * John Bunyan
    • He findeth, moreover, revealed in him the Saviour of the world, and the absolute necessity of closing with him for life; at the which he findeth hungerings and thirstings after him; to which hungerings, etc., the promise is made.

    pining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pines.
  • * Ann Radcliffe
    • the sullen pinings of discontent