Swoon vs Coma - What's the difference?
swoon | coma |
A faint.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
An infatuation
(dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
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, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
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to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)
A state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
(astronomy) A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.
(optics) A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that should be points.
(botany) A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.
As nouns the difference between swoon and coma
is that swoon is swan while coma is a state of sleep from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma or coma can be (astronomy) a cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet.swoon
English
Alternative forms
* swound (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}