Torture vs Sadness - What's the difference?
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Intentional causing of somebody's experiencing agony.
(chiefly, literary) The "suffering of the heart" imposed by one on another, as in personal relationships.
To intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on (someone).
(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
(countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
Torture is a related term of sadness.
As a verb torture
is .As a noun sadness is
(uncountable) the state or emotion of being sad.torture
English
(wikipedia torture)Noun
(en noun)- Using large dogs to attack bound, hand-cuffed prisoners is clearly torture .
- In every war there are acts of torture that cause the world to shudder.
- People confess to anything under torture .
- Every time she says 'goodbye' it is torture !
Derived terms
* torture chamber *Verb
(tortur)- People who torture often have sadistic tendencies.
Derived terms
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* * * ----sadness
English
(wikipedia sadness)Noun
- She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.