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Unsettling vs Alarming - What's the difference?

unsettling | alarming |

As adjectives the difference between unsettling and alarming

is that unsettling is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing while alarming is causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

As verbs the difference between unsettling and alarming

is that unsettling is while alarming is .

As a noun unsettling

is the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

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.

    alarming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening

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