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Relieving vs Reliving - What's the difference?

relieving | reliving |

As verbs the difference between relieving and reliving

is that relieving is present participle of lang=en while reliving is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective relieving

is that brings relief.

As a noun reliving is

the act by which something is relived.

relieving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That brings relief.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 24:
  • *:Like a weary insomniac, France too greeted the relieving dawn chiefly longing for one thing only – repose.

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    reliving

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is relived.
  • * 1996 , Susan Contratto, ?M. Janice Gutfreund, A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate (page 38)
    • In effect, the recovery of traumatic memories involves the conscious awareness and explicit processing of relivings of the somatosensory and affective experiences during the trauma, relivings that are largely context-free and meaningless.

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