different between winking vs wincing

English

winking

winking (plural winkings)

The act of someone who winks.
- 1828, The Harvard Register: no. I-XII, March, 1827-Feb. 1828 (page 153)
  I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]
- 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 7, p. 201,^[1]
  […] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.

wincing

wincing (plural wincings)

The act by which someone winces; a grimace.
- 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
  poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats

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