Paroxysm vs Recurrent - What's the difference?
paroxysm | recurrent |
A random or sudden outburst (of activity).
* 1903 , (Jack London), (The Call of the Wild)
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, title= * 1955 , (Vladimir Nabokov), (Lolita)
* 1983 , (John Fowles), Mantissa
An explosive event during a volcanic eruption.
A sudden recurrence of a disease.
Recurring time after time.
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
Running back toward its origin.
As a noun paroxysm
is a random or sudden outburst (of activity).As an adjective recurrent is
recurrent; recurring.paroxysm
English
Noun
(en noun)- Unable to turn his back on the fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of rage.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
- «There, on the soft sand, a few feet away from our elders, we would sprawl all morning, in a petrified paroxysm of desire, and take advantage of every blessed quirk in space and time to touch each other»
- Indeed in his excitement at this breakthrough he inadvertently dug his nails into the nurse's bottom, a gesture she misinterpreted, so that he had to suffer a paroxysm of breasts and loins in response.
Derived terms
* paroxysmalExternal links
* * *recurrent
English
Adjective
(wikipedia recurrent) (-)- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
- a recurrent nerve or artery