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Yawning vs Screaming - What's the difference?

yawning | screaming |

As verbs the difference between yawning and screaming

is that yawning is while screaming is .

As adjectives the difference between yawning and screaming

is that yawning is that yawns or yawn while screaming is loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.

As a noun yawning

is the action of the verb 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.}}

    screaming

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Loud, sharp, and piercing to the ear.
  • Obvious; distinct.
  • (LGBT, slang) Effeminate, flamboyant or otherwise obviously gay.
  • Did you see that guy at the bar? Screaming !

    Synonyms

    * screeching * shrieking

    Derived terms

    * no screaming hell * screamingest * screamingly