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Soothing vs Voluble - What's the difference?

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Soothing is a related term of voluble.


As adjectives the difference between soothing and voluble

is that soothing is tending to soothe while voluble is (of a person or a manner of speaking) fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.

As a verb soothing

is .

As a noun soothing

is the act by which somebody is soothed.

soothing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to soothe.
  • soothing music
  • Giving relief.
  • a soothing ointment
  • Freeing from fear or anxiety.
  • soothing words

    Derived terms

    * soothingly

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is soothed.
  • * 1823 , Charles Caleb Colton
  • There are moments when the brightest minds prefer the soothings of sympathy to all the brilliance of wit, as he that is in need of repose, selects a bed of feathers, rather than of flints.

    Anagrams

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    voluble

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.
  • * , Love's Labour's Lost , act 3, scene 1:
  • A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
  • * 1853 , , Villette , ch. 19:
  • What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!
  • * 1904 , , The Sea Wolf , ch. 26:
  • But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble , prone to speech as I had never seen him before.
  • Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.
  • * 1886 , , The Minister's Charge , ch. 6:
  • [H]e heard the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble' remorse, and in ' voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy.
  • * 1910 , , "The Reticence of Lady Anne" in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches :
  • As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.
  • * 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 9:
  • In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal.
  • Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.
  • * 1935 , , Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record , Peter Davies, page 22:
  • Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.
  • (botany) Twisting and turning like a vine.
  • Synonyms

    * (easily rolling) steady

    Antonyms

    * (fluent) halting