Terror vs Despair - What's the difference?
terror | despair |
(uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
(countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.
* 1794 , (William Godwin),
(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
* 1921', (Edith Birkhead), ''The tale of '''terror : a study of the Gothic romance
(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
* 1841 , (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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, title= (obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
* Milton
(obsolete) To cause to despair.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 8
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which is despaired of.
As nouns the difference between terror and despair
is that terror is terror while despair is loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.As a verb despair is
(obsolete) to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.terror
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Alternative forms
* terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)Noun
- The terrors with which I was seizedwere extreme.
- The terrors of the storm
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
Derived terms
* terrorism * terrorist * terrorize, terrorized, terrorizing * reign of terrorSee also
* alarm * fright * consternation * dread * dismayExternal links
* * ----despair
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Verb
(en verb)- I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
- We despaired even of life.
Noun
- He turned around in despair , aware that he was not going to survive