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differing en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. unlike, dissimilar, distinct; that which differs
    • A priority for the new pope will be to strengthen the church’s unity amid differing views and expectations within the institution and growing polarisation in the wider world. 2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian:

Forms

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more differing Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most differing Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

undiffering · differingly

Translations (2)

mi tāhapa (unlike or dissimilar) · cy anghytûn (unlike or dissimilar)

differing en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. difference
    • I knew nothing then of the great differings and philosophizings, the setting up and tearing down of fine lines technically and aesthetically between the two that had been going on among the devotees of each […] 1983, Robert Bator, Signposts to criticism of children's literature:
    • It is the differings and deferrings of language that produce meanings, truths and values […] 2007, Youru Wang, Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought:

Forms

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differings Number=Plur lexicographic

differing en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of differ
    form of differ