Contortion vs Paroxysm - What's the difference?
contortion | paroxysm | Related terms |
The act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself.
A form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body.
A random or sudden outburst (of activity).
* 1903 , (Jack London), (The Call of the Wild)
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, title= * 1955 , (Vladimir Nabokov), (Lolita)
* 1983 , (John Fowles), Mantissa
An explosive event during a volcanic eruption.
A sudden recurrence of a disease.
Contortion is a related term of paroxysm.
As nouns the difference between contortion and paroxysm
is that contortion is the act of contorting, twisting or deforming something, especially oneself while paroxysm is a random or sudden outburst (of activity).contortion
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(wikipedia contortion)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* contortionistparoxysm
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Noun
(en noun)- Unable to turn his back on the fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of rage.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
- «There, on the soft sand, a few feet away from our elders, we would sprawl all morning, in a petrified paroxysm of desire, and take advantage of every blessed quirk in space and time to touch each other»
- Indeed in his excitement at this breakthrough he inadvertently dug his nails into the nurse's bottom, a gesture she misinterpreted, so that he had to suffer a paroxysm of breasts and loins in response.