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Shapeshifter vs Changing - What's the difference?

shapeshifter | changing |

As nouns the difference between shapeshifter and changing

is that shapeshifter is (fantasy|mythology) a creature capable of changing its appearance or form at will while changing is change; alteration.

As a verb changing is

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shapeshifter

English

(Shapeshifting)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (fantasy, mythology) A creature capable of changing its appearance or form at will
  • * 2000: Glen Cook, Water Sleeps
    • The shapeshifter Lisa Bowalk, unable to shed the guise of a black panther, had gone onto the plain as a prisoner but was not now to be found among the dead above or the Captured down below.
  • * 2003: Michael Bathgate, The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities
    • Like the teller of shapeshifter' stories—who conjures a shifting world of perceptions and expectations for his or her audience that is strikingly similar to the worlds created by the ' shapeshifter for its victims—the cultural practice of imagination...is an inherently shifty enterprise....
  • * 2004: Devin Grayson, Smallville: City
    • There have also been verified reports of fire-starters and ice-makers and a shapeshifter so powerful she was able to frame another Smallville citizen for a bank robbery!

    changing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * everchanging * unchanging

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • change; alteration
  • * George Fox
    • And stand steadfast in the unchangeable life and seed of God, which was before changings and alterings were; and which will remain when they all are gone.