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Titubation vs Titubant - What's the difference?

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Titubation is a related term of titubant.


As a noun titubation

is the act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.

As an adjective titubant is

stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy.

titubation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.
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    titubant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
  • * 1896 , , Macaire , act i, scene 2 (stage directions)
  • To these, by the door L. C., the'' CURATE ''and the'' NOTARY, ''arm in arm; the latter owl-like and titubant
  • * 1928 , Acta Psychiatrica et Neurologica? , volume 3, page 65
  • His walk had become titubant .
  • * 1948 , Karl Pearson, Treasury of Human Inheritance: Nervous Diseases and Muscular Dystrophies? , page 253
  • her feet showed the typical Friedreich's deformity; her speech was drawling and monotonous; her gait was staggering and titubant

    Synonyms

    * lurching, reeling, staggering, stumbling, unsteady, vacillating