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Troubling vs Unsettling - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between troubling and unsettling

is that troubling is distressing, worrying while unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

As verbs the difference between troubling and unsettling

is that troubling is present participle of lang=en while unsettling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between troubling and unsettling

is that troubling is the infliction of trouble or distress while unsettling is the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

troubling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • distressing, worrying

    • Derived terms

    * troublingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The infliction of trouble or distress.
  • * (Donald Friend)
    • Even more important in contributing to a sense of welfare, we both made drawings all the morning, and have laid at rest the troublings of artistic conscience.

    unsettling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
  • * 2013 , Krishna Sen, ?Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (page 19)
    • But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.