Reassuring vs Encourage - What's the difference?
reassuring | encourage |
That reassures; causing comfort or confidence.
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reassurance
* (Mark Twain)
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
As verbs the difference between reassuring and encourage
is that reassuring is while encourage is .As an adjective reassuring
is that reassures; causing comfort or confidence.As a noun reassuring
is reassurance.reassuring
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring . It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
- It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.
Noun
(en noun)- Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings .
encourage
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Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed