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Agony vs Agonizing - What's the difference?

agony | agonizing |

As a noun agony

is violent contest or striving.

As a adjective agonizing is

causing agony.

As a verb agonizing is

(agonize).

agony

English

Noun

(agonies)
  • Violent contest or striving.
    • The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. —.
  • Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
    • Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. —Luke xxii. 44.
  • Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
    • With cries and agonies of wild delight. —.
  • The last struggle of life; death struggle.

    • Synonyms

    * anguish, torment, throe, distress, pang, suffering * See also

    Antonyms

    * (extreme pain) ecstasy

    Related terms

    * agon * agonist, antagonist, protagonist * agonistes

    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.