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Pondering vs Planning - What's the difference?

pondering | planning |

As verbs the difference between pondering and planning

is that pondering is while planning is .

As nouns the difference between pondering and planning

is that pondering is ruminations while planning is (uncountable) action of the verb to plan .

pondering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Ruminations.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 18, author=Jim Coyle, title=Spoofing of premier a bad omen, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.}}

    planning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) action of the verb to plan
  • the act of formulating of a course of action, or of drawing up plans
  • the act of making contingency plans
  • (informal, British) planning permission
    • My neighbours were going to build an extension but they didn't get planning .

    Usage notes

    Planning is a context-based. It may function as a gerund or verb in a participle, but care must be taken to avoid misuse with 'plan'. Planning is almost never used in the plural, especially by native speakers. It sometimes appears in print, often in translated works especially in politics and management fields.

    Derived terms

    * family planning * life planning * macroplanning * microplanning * planning permission * vacation planning

    External links

    * (wikipedia "planning")