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Wondering vs Imagining - What's the difference?

wondering | imagining |

As verbs the difference between wondering and imagining

is that wondering is while imagining is .

As nouns the difference between wondering and imagining

is that wondering is the mental activity by which one wonders; a query, puzzlement, etc while imagining is something imagined.

wondering

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Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mental activity by which one wonders; a query, puzzlement, etc.

    • imagining

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something imagined.
  • * 1977 , Cat Stevens, (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard'' in ''Izitso , Dave Kershenbaum & Cat Stevens,
    • Remember the days of the old schoolyard / When we had imaginings and we had / All kinds of things and we laughed / And needed love...
  • * 2006 , Jessica Page Morrell, Between the Lines , Writer's Digest Books, page 15,
    • Stories became part of the human existence, and since those first tales, some bathed in firelight, stories have transported listeners from their ordinary concerns into the world created by the storyteller and their own imaginings .

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