What is the difference between sudden and crisis?
sudden | crisis |
Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which the patient is expected to recover or die.
(psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
(drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
As nouns the difference between sudden and crisis
is that sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise while crisis is a crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.As a adjective sudden
is happening quickly and with little or no warning, snell.As a adverb sudden
is (poetic) suddenly.sudden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden
