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Talking vs Conversing - What's the difference?

talking | conversing |

As nouns the difference between talking and conversing

is that talking is the action of the verb talk while conversing is conversation.

As verbs the difference between talking and conversing

is that talking is while conversing is .

talking

English

Noun

  • The action of the verb talk .
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking ; just to watch was pleasant.}}
  • * Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?
    • He did not himself care for the loose little talkings , half flat and half sharp, of men when they meet together in idleness.

    Verb

    (head)

    • conversing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • conversation
  • * (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
    • Have you not, in your own secret souls, in your own private conversings , felt that there are woes and evils, in this accursed system, far beyond what are here shadowed, or can be shadowed?

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