What is the difference between a twitch and a tic?!
Question: what is the difference between a twitch and a tic?
Answers: what is the difference between a twitch and a tic?
tic n. A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities.
twitch n. 9. involuntary, spasmodic movement of a muscle; tic: He gets a twitch in his left eye when he's nervous.
They're the same when used to refer to a muscle movement, but twitch has some additional definitions and can be used as a noun or a verb, while tic can only be used as a noun.
Seems the same to me. Both are descriptions of funky compulsive body actions.
i think that like a tic could be an action or a noise or something that you feel compelled to do, and a twitch you cant help, your body just does it
i dunno=]
theres a slight difference as i understand it, a nervous tic is usually habitual in most cases, people get tics for certain reasons and it happens regularly especially during a certain thing such as meeting someone new or something like that, a twitch is just a spasmatic muscle movement that can be caused by a number of things it is random and isnt usually habitual
this is a tic- http://mapage.noos.fr/jmmounou01/tic.jpg
is a twich- http://www.stargazy.org/hamster/dwarfs/a...
