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Agonizing vs Intense - What's the difference?

agonizing | intense |

As adjectives the difference between agonizing and intense

is that agonizing is causing agony while intense is strained; tightly drawn.

As a verb agonizing

is .

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.

    intense

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Strained; tightly drawn.
  • Strict, very close or earnest.
  • Extreme in degree; excessive.
  • Extreme in size or strength.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}
  • Stressful and tiring.
  • Very severe.

    • Related terms

    * intensely * intenseness * intensification * intensify * intensity * intensive

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