different between troubling vs unsettling

English

Adjective

troubling (comparative more troubling, superlative most troubling)

1. distressing, worrying

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Derived terms

• troublingly

Verb

troubling

1. present participle of trouble

Noun

troubling (countable and uncountable, plural troublings)

1. The infliction of trouble or distress.
   • 1681, Henry Foulis, The History of Romish Treasons and Usurpations

     The Popes censures and troublings of the Emperour [Chapter title]

   • 1882, Philip Bennett Power, Litanies of daily life

     From all troublings of covetousness and ambition

English

Adjective

unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)

1. That makes one troubled or uneasy; disquieting or distressing.

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Verb

unsettling

1. present participle of unsettle

Noun

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

1. 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.