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Sundering vs Shattering - What's the difference?

sundering | shattering |

As verbs the difference between sundering and shattering

is that sundering is while shattering is .

As nouns the difference between sundering and shattering

is that sundering is the act by which something is sundered while shattering is the act of something that shatters.

sundering

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Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is sundered.
  • * 2002 , Mike Crang, ?Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space (page 178)
    • Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings , tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.

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    shattering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that shatters.
  • * 1997 , J. Wright, Realism and Explanatory Priority (page 226)
    • It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings , because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass)

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