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Tumultuous vs Unsettling - What's the difference?

tumultuous | unsettling |

As adjectives the difference between tumultuous and unsettling

is that tumultuous is noisy and disorderly while unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

As a verb unsettling is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun unsettling is

the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

tumultuous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Noisy and disorderly
  • Causing tumult

    • 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.