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Discomfort vs Disconcerting - What's the difference?

discomfort | disconcerting |

As a noun discomfort

is mental or bodily distress.

As a verb discomfort

is to cause annoyance or distress to.

As an adjective disconcerting is

tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.

discomfort

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mental or bodily distress.
  • Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause annoyance or distress to.
  • (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His funeral shall not be in our camp, / Lest it discomfort us.

    Usage notes

    As a verb, the unrelated term discomfit is often used instead, largely interchangeably, though this is proscribed by some as an error, (term) originally meaning “destroy”, not “distress”.

    Derived terms

    * discomforter

    See also

    * discomfit

    disconcerting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
    • Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."