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Yawning vs Fawning - What's the difference?

yawning | fawning |

As verbs the difference between yawning and fawning

is that yawning is present participle of lang=en while fawning is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between yawning and fawning

is that yawning is the action of the verb yawn while fawning is servile flattery.

As an adjective yawning

is that yawns or yawn.

yawning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb yawn.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That yawns or yawn.
  • (figuratively) Wide open.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what.}}

    fawning

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
    • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • servile flattery
  • * (Hannah More)
    • Xantippus found his ruin ere it reached him, / Lurking behind your honours and rewards; / Found it in your feigned courtesies and fawnings .