Quest vs Seeking - What's the difference?
quest | seeking | Synonyms |
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
* (William Shakespeare)
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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
* Herbert
(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
* (William Shakespeare)
To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
To search for; to examine.
The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
* 1873 , Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)
(in combination) that seeks something specified
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
Quest is a synonym of seeking.
As an abbreviation quest
is quantized electronic structure.As a noun seeking is
the act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.As an adjective seeking is
(in combination) that seeks something specified.As a verb seeking is
.quest
English
(wikipedia quest)Noun
(en noun)- Cease your quest of love.
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- Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
- The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
- What lawful quest have given their verdict?
Derived terms
* sidequestVerb
(en verb)seeking
English
Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* heat-seeking * self-seekingVerb
(head)- While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.