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Dolor vs Ennui - What's the difference?

dolor | ennui |

As nouns the difference between dolor and ennui

is that dolor is pain, grief, sorrow, woe while ennui is a gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

dolor

English

Alternative forms

* dolour

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literary) sorrow, grief, misery or anguish
  • a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * (unit of pain) hedon

    See also

    * (unit of pain) util

    Anagrams

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    ennui

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "ennui")