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Winsome vs Endearing - What's the difference?

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Winsome is a related term of endearing.


As adjectives the difference between winsome and endearing

is that winsome is charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner while endearing is inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way.

As a verb endearing is

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As a noun endearing is

endearment.

winsome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Charming; inspiring trust and approval, especially if in an innocent manner.
    • His bedside manner was especially winsome .
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.

    Derived terms

    * winsomeness * winsomely

    Related terms

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    endearing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inspiring love or affection, in a childlike way.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endearment
  • * (Jack London)
    • It was arms around, and perpetual endearings , and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.

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