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Wondering vs Worrying - What's the difference?

wondering | worrying |

As verbs the difference between wondering and worrying

is that wondering is while worrying is .

As nouns the difference between wondering and worrying

is that wondering is the mental activity by which one wonders; a query, puzzlement, etc while worrying is the act of worrying or harassing somebody.

As an adjective worrying is

inducing worry.

wondering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

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

    • worrying

    English

    (wikipedia worrying)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inducing worry.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
  • * Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
    • There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "worrying")