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Mortification vs Heartbreak - What's the difference?

mortification | heartbreak | Related terms |

Mortification is a related term of heartbreak.


As nouns the difference between mortification and heartbreak

is that mortification is the act of mortifying while heartbreak is overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment.

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.

    heartbreak

    English

    Noun

  • overwhelming mental anguish or grief, especially that caused by loss or disappointment
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.}}