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Waning vs Lingering - What's the difference?

waning | lingering |

As nouns the difference between waning and lingering

is that waning is the fact or act of becoming less or less intense while lingering is an act of lingering or waiting.

As verbs the difference between waning and lingering

is that waning is while lingering is .

As an adjective waning

is becoming weaker or smaller.

waning

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Becoming weaker or smaller.
    • his waning strength
  • Especially of the lunar phase as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
    • the waning moon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
    • the waning of her energy
  • The fact or act of becoming smaller.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings , and sometimes her eclipses.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * awning ----

    lingering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of lingering or waiting.
  • * 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
    • But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
  • That which lingers; a remnant.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.