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Prying vs Probing - What's the difference?

prying | probing |

As verbs the difference between prying and probing

is that prying is while probing is .

As nouns the difference between prying and probing

is that prying is the act of one who pries while probing is the action of investigating]] or [[explore|exploring.

As an adjective probing is

of something that investigates or explores deeply.

prying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.

    probing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of something that investigates or explores deeply.
    • He was unsettled by her probing questions.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of investigating]] or [[explore, exploring.

    • Synonyms

    * exploring, investigating, questioning

    Verb

    (head)