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Visiting vs Entertaining - What's the difference?

visiting | entertaining |

As verbs the difference between visiting and entertaining

is that visiting is present participle of lang=en while entertaining is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between visiting and entertaining

is that visiting is the act of someone or something that visits while entertaining is entertainment.

As an adjective entertaining is

very amusing; that entertains.

visiting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of someone or something that visits.
  • * Shakespeare, Macbeth
    • Come, you spirits
  • * 2003 , Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)
    • Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."

    entertaining

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very amusing; that entertains.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Sunderland came back from two goals down to earn a point from an entertaining encounter with West Brom.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) entertainment
  • * 1889 , George Herbert Curteis, Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield
    • As soon as the festival was over, and the usual routine of summer entertainings and meetings had been got through, the Bishop and Mrs. Selwyn, accompanied by their large family party and some friends, started for a quiet holiday