different between buying vs busying

English

Etymology

buy +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?.??/

Verb

buying

1. present participle of buy

Derived terms

• impulse buying
• panic buying

Noun

buying (countable and uncountable, plural buyings)

1. The act of making a purchase.
   • 1707, A General Discourse of Commerce (page 126)

     […] Reckonings of all and every his Dealings, Doings, Buyings and Sellings and Employments, touching and concerning the Premises […]

Translations

English

Verb

busying

1. present participle of busy

Noun

busying (plural busyings)

1. busyness; making oneself busy with something
   • 1853, The Cottage Lamp, an aid to happiness in this world and the next

     All of you have some business or other to do in the world. Are not your thoughts, and talkings, and busyings, and anxieties, and cares, altogether about the business you have to do?

   • 1856, Thomas Cobbet, Gospel Incense Or a Practical Treatise on Prayer (page 296)

     And as other dreams come from the multitude of business, so from such like busyings of the mind, we shall pray but dreamingly and distemperedly.

Anagrams

• buyings