different between looming vs coming

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?m??

Verb

looming

1. present participle of loom

Noun

looming (plural loomings)

1. The condition of something that looms or towers.
   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets No. 5, Stump-Orator

     But if no world exist in the man; if nothing but continents of empty vapour, of greedy self-conceits, commonplace hearsays, and indistinct loomings of a sordid chaos exist in him, […]

Estonian

Noun

looming (genitive loomingu, partitive loomingut)

1. creative work

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kweman? (“to come”), equivalent to come +? -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), German kommend (“coming”), Swedish kommande (“coming”), Icelandic komandi (“coming”).

Verb

coming

1. present participle of come

Derived terms

• a long time coming
• have it coming
• see coming

Etymology 2

From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come +? -ing (gerundive ending).

Noun

coming (plural comings)

1. The act of arriving; an arrival

Derived terms

• aftercoming
• forecoming
• forthcoming
• gaincoming
• second coming

Translations

Adjective

coming (not comparable)

1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
2. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

3. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

   • How coming to the poet every muse!

Synonyms

• (of the future): unborn; see also Thesaurus:future

Translations

Derived terms

• coming on
• this coming
• up-and-coming

Anagrams

• gnomic