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Dejection vs Agony - What's the difference?

dejection | agony | Related terms |

Dejection is a related term of agony.


As nouns the difference between dejection and agony

is that dejection is dejection, defecation while agony is violent contest or striving.

dejection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
  • The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
  • Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
  • A low condition; weakness; inability.
  • A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
  • (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1855 , year_published= , publisher=Linday & Blakiston , author=Austin Flint , title=Clinical Reports on Continued Fever Based on Analyses of One Hundred and Sixty-Four Cases , section=First Clinical Report on Continued Fever, Based on an Analysis of Forty-Two Cases citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=u_wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=dejection , page=39 , passage=No dejection since his entrance, nor has he passed urine.}}
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  • , year=1861 , year_published=2010 , publisher=Applewood Books , author=James Jackson , title=Another Letter to a Young Physician , section=Note I. John Lowell citation , pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
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  • , year=1921 , year_published=2000 , publisher=B. Jain Publishers , edition=2nd edition , author=Charles Signmund Raue , title=Diseases of Children - Homeopathic Treatment , section=Chapter IX Diseases of the Intestines citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}

    Synonyms

    * (defecation or feces) excrement, bowel movement

    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