Waning vs Wan - What's the difference?
waning | wan |
Becoming weaker or smaller.
Especially of the lunar phase as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
The fact or act of becoming less or less intense.
The fact or act of becoming smaller.
* Bishop Hall
Pale, sickly-looking.
* Spenser
* Longfellow
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Dim, faint.
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Bland, uninterested.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) (win)
As an adjective waning
is becoming weaker or smaller.As a noun waning
is the fact or act of becoming less or less intense.As a verb waning
is .waning
English
Adjective
(-)- his waning strength
- the waning moon
Noun
(en noun)- the waning of her energy
- This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings , and sometimes her eclipses.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* awning ----wan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(wanner)- Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
- the wan moon overhead
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- A wan expression
Noun
(-)- Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.