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Questioning vs Prying - What's the difference?

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Questioning is a related term of prying.


As nouns the difference between questioning and prying

is that questioning is the action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry while prying is the act of one who pries.

As verbs the difference between questioning and prying

is that questioning is while prying is .

As an adjective questioning

is characterized by questions, inquisitiveness, doubt or wonder.

questioning

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of asking questions; a survey; an inquiry.
  • The act of challenging, wondering and doubting.
  • Interrogation

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Characterized by questions, inquisitiveness, doubt or wonder.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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.