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Flailing vs Struggling - What's the difference?

flailing | struggling |

As verbs the difference between flailing and struggling

is that flailing is while struggling is .

As nouns the difference between flailing and struggling

is that flailing is a flailing action or motion while struggling is the act of one who struggles.

flailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flailing action or motion.
    • The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.

    struggling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who struggles.
  • * 1848 , Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion
    • All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.