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Mortification vs Discomfiture - What's the difference?

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Mortification is a related term of discomfiture.


As nouns the difference between mortification and discomfiture

is that mortification is the act of mortifying while discomfiture is a feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment.

mortification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of mortifying.
  • A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
  • (medicine) The death of part of the body.
  • *1913 ,
    • And then there's the fever and the mortification —if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.

    discomfiture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feeling of frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment.