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Agonizing vs Hurting - What's the difference?

agonizing | hurting |

As verbs the difference between agonizing and hurting

is that agonizing is while hurting is .

As nouns the difference between agonizing and hurting

is that agonizing is the act of one who agonizes while hurting is a sensation that hurts.

As an adjective agonizing

is causing agony.

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.

    hurting

    English

    Verb

    (wikipedia hurting) (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that hurts.
  • * 1997 , Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness
    • Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way