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Reviewing vs Recalling - What's the difference?

reviewing | recalling |

As verbs the difference between reviewing and recalling

is that reviewing is present participle of lang=en while recalling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between reviewing and recalling

is that reviewing is the act by which something is reviewed, or thought about again; a mental review while recalling is the act by which something is recalled.

reviewing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is reviewed, or thought about again; a mental review.
  • * Iain Banks, Whit
    • Sleep came for me eventually, after many more reviewings of the long, involved and fractious day, and many more attempts to stop thinking about all the mysteries surrounding me.

    recalling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is recalled.
  • * (Mark Twain), The Mysterious Stranger
    • I was full of sorrow, and also of remorse, which is the way with us in the first days of a bereavement, and at such times we wish to be alone with our trouble and our bitter recallings of failings of loyalty or love toward the comrade who is gone.