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Agonizing vs Excruciating - What's the difference?

agonizing | excruciating |

As adjectives the difference between agonizing and excruciating

is that agonizing is causing agony while excruciating is causing great pain or anguish, agonizing.

As a verb agonizing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun agonizing

is the act of one who agonizes.

agonizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing agony.
    • It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who agonizes.
  • * 1918 , W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
    • I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.

    excruciating

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
    • the nation's most excruciating dilemma -- W. H. Ferry (rfdate)
  • Exceedingly intense; extreme

    • Related terms

    * cruciate * excruciate * excruciatingly