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Witling vs Witting - What's the difference?

witling | witting |

As nouns the difference between witling and witting

is that witling is a person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty while witting is knowledge, awareness.

As an adjective witting is

aware, knowledgable.

As a verb witting is

present participle of lang=en.

witling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty
  • a person with little wit
  • *1942:' Maurine Whipple, ''The Giant Joshua'' by - "But the ' witlings of the bunch were those two swaggering there in the popular conception of western dress...."
  • *1955:' Rex Stout, ''Immune to Murder'' - "...only a ' witling would call a man with my conceit a liar."

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    witting

    English

    Etymology 1

    Partly from (etyl) vitand, partly from the present participle of (wit).

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Knowledge, awareness.
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Prologue’ ll. 648-9, Canterbury Tales , Oxford 1988, p. 113:
    • for his wyf was at a someres game, / Wiþouten his wityng , he forsook hire eke.

    Etymology 2

    Participle adjective of wit.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • aware, knowledgable
    • Antonyms
    * unwitting

    Verb

    (head)