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Stirring vs Quickening - What's the difference?

stirring | quickening | Synonyms |

Stirring is a synonym of quickening.


As verbs the difference between stirring and quickening

is that stirring is while quickening is .

As nouns the difference between stirring and quickening

is that stirring is (gerund of stir) an occasion on which something stirs or is stirred while quickening is an increase of speed.

As an adjective stirring

is invigorating or inspiring.

stirring

English

Adjective

(head)
  • invigorating or inspiring
  • *
    • As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.}}
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Carter Dougherty, European Central Bank Cuts Key Rate, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth. }}

    quickening

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An increase of speed.
  • * 1861 , United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics (page 124)
    • If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.
  • The action of bringing someone or something to life.
  • The first noticable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
  • Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
  • * 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
    • It may indeed be said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie's direct percptions, of her sense of freedom to make out things for herself.