Malice vs Terror - What's the difference?
malice | terror |
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
* 1981 , , Valis , ISBN 0-553-20594-3, page 67:
(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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As nouns the difference between malice and terror
is that malice is intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune while terror is terror.malice
English
Noun
(-)- not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright malice showed itself instead.
Synonyms
* ill will * wickedness * evilnessDerived terms
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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.}}
