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Agony vs Colic - What's the difference?

agony | colic |

As nouns the difference between agony and colic

is that agony is violent contest or striving while colic is (pathology) severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems).

As an adjective colic is

relating to the colon; colonic.

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

    colic

    English

    (wikipedia colic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel related problems).
  • A medicinal plant used to relieve one of such symptoms.

    • Derived terms

    * colicky

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Relating to the colon; colonic.