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Staying vs Visiting - What's the difference?

staying | visiting |

As verbs the difference between staying and visiting

is that staying is while visiting is .

As nouns the difference between staying and visiting

is that staying is a stay or visit while visiting is the act of someone or something that visits.

staying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * staying power

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stay or visit.
  • * 1907 , The National Review (volume 48, page 135)
    • The years that follow are chiefly noteworthy for his intercourse with four clever girl cousins called Southall, and sundry stayings at Moseley with a cheery, literary old grandmother

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    visiting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that visits.
  • * Shakespeare, Macbeth
    • Come, you spirits
  • * 2003 , Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)
    • Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."