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Gloating vs Rejoicing - What's the difference?

gloating | rejoicing |

As verbs the difference between gloating and rejoicing

is that gloating is present participle of lang=en while rejoicing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between gloating and rejoicing

is that gloating is the act of one who gloats while rejoicing is an act of showing joy.

gloating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who gloats.
  • * 1983 , Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand (page 69)
    • There are not-so-disguised gloatings as a freelancer gets the job he has been looking for and gets access to powerful and productive television filmmakers.

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    rejoicing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • An act of showing joy.
  • :There was much rejoicing when the good news finally arrived.
  • * 1842 , Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned (page 286)
    • But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings , to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!