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Unsettling vs Destabilizing - What's the difference?

unsettling | destabilizing |

As verbs the difference between unsettling and destabilizing

is that unsettling is while destabilizing is .

As an adjective unsettling

is that makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

As a noun unsettling

is the weakening of some previously established system or norm.

unsettling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The weakening of some previously established system or norm.
  • * 2013 , Krishna Sen, ?Maila Stivens, Gender and Power in Affluent Asia (page 19)
    • But reconstructing theory has proved more problematic than feminists might have hoped, even as their efforts played an important if sometimes overlooked part in post-modern unsettlings of theories in the West.

    destabilizing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * destabilising (UK )

    Verb

    (head)