Wandering vs Straying - What's the difference?
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Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
(medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
Irregular turning of the eyes.
Aimless thought.
Straying from a desired path.
(chiefly, in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
The act of one who strays; deviation or sin.
* 2002 , Adena Tanenbaum, The Contemplative Soul
As nouns the difference between wandering and straying
is that wandering is travelling with no preset route; roaming while straying is the act of one who strays; deviation or sin.As verbs the difference between wandering and straying
is that wandering is present participle of lang=en while straying is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective wandering
is which wanders; travelling from place to place.wandering
English
Adjective
(-)- a wandering''' kidney; a '''wandering liver
Derived terms
(terms derived from wandering) * wandering abscess * wandering albatross * wandering cell * wandering dune * wandering Jew * wandering kidney * wandering liver * wandering mouse * wandering pacemaker * wandering sequence * wandering set * wandering spider * wandering tattlerNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)straying
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The soul is described as a dove who once nested in God's protective shade, and her strayings from the straight and narrow are portrayed as a descent into the defiling world of corporeality