What is the difference between anguish and fear?
anguish | fear |
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
* Bible, Exodus vi. 9
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To suffer pain.
* (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
To cause to suffer pain.
(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
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, chapter=18 (lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
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(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
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* Bible, (Psalms)
To cause fear to; to frighten.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= (lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
(lb) Regret.
(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(lb) To suspect; to doubt.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
In transitive terms the difference between anguish and fear
is that anguish is to cause to suffer pain while fear is regret.As nouns the difference between anguish and fear
is that anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress while fear is (uncountable: unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.As verbs the difference between anguish and fear
is that anguish is to suffer pain while fear is to cause fear to; to frighten.As an adjective fear is
able; capable; stout; strong; sound.anguish
English
Noun
- But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
- Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
- A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish —burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.
Synonyms
* agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment * See also:Verb
(es)- We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish , it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.Noun
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Synonyms
* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See alsoDerived terms
* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fearVerb
(en verb)- Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
Mark Tran
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- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.
- Fear you not her courage?