Difference between Exceeding and Surpassing

What is the difference between Exceeding and Surpassing?

Exceeding as a verb is to be larger, greater than (something). while Surpassing as a verb is to go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

Exceeding

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be larger, greater than (something).

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: prodigious exceptional, extraordinary extreme

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Exceedingly.

Example sentence: She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Surpassing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.

We hope you now know whether to use Exceeding or Surpassing in your sentence.

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