different between vexing vs unsettling

English

From Middle English vexynge (“harassment”); equivalent to vex +? -ing.

vexing

vexing (plural vexings)

vexation
- 2002, Harold Bloom, American Women Poets, 1650-1950
  Many unkindnesses as well as (one feels) many liberties and general vexings, were required to move her to this.

vexing

unsettling (comparative more unsettling, superlative most unsettling)

unsettling

unsettling (plural unsettlings)

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.

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