Pang vs Discomfort - What's the difference?
pang | discomfort | Related terms |
(often, pluralized) paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; sudden and transitory agony; throe
* 1591 , , Henry VI, Part II , act 3, sc. 3,
* 1888 , , "The Nightingale and the Rose" in The Happy Prince and Other Tales ,
(often, pluralized) A sharp, sudden feeling of a mental or emotional nature, as of joy or sorrow
* 1867 , , The Guardian Angel , ch. 7,
to torment; to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering
* 1918 , , "On Unanswering Letters" in Mince Pie ,
Mental or bodily distress.
Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To cause annoyance or distress to.
(obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
* Shakespeare
Pang is a related term of discomfort.
As a noun discomfort is
mental or bodily distress.As a verb discomfort is
to cause annoyance or distress to.pang
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
- So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her.
- He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor.
Verb
- It panged him so to say good-bye when he had to leave.
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English
Noun
(en noun)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Verb
(en verb)- His funeral shall not be in our camp, / Lest it discomfort us.