Febrile vs Pyretic - What's the difference?
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Feverish, or having a high temperature.
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, passage=Aurora's orange sun (Baley scarcely noted the orange tinge now) was mildly warm on his back, lacking the febrile heat that Earth's sun had in summer (but, then, what was the climate and season on this portion of Aurora right now?).
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Full of nervous energy.
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As adjectives the difference between febrile and pyretic
is that febrile is feverish, or having a high temperature while pyretic is caused by, pertaining to or resulting in fever.febrile
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=An already febrile atmosphere within the ground before the start had been stoked still further when France's players formed an arrow formation to face down the haka, and then advanced slowly over halfway as the capacity crowd roared.}}