Torment vs Unhappiness - What's the difference?

Torment is a related term of unhappiness.

As nouns the difference between torment and unhappiness

is that torment is (obsolete) a catapult or other kind of war-engine while unhappiness is the feeling of not being happy.

As a verb torment

is to cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex'' but weaker than ''to torture ).

torment

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.

Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.

Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

He was bitter from the torments of the divorce system.

* Bible, Matthew iv. 24

They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments .

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* tormentous

Verb

(en verb)

To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex'' but weaker than ''to torture. )

The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, " Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 22 September 2013:

Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.