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Torturous vs Agonizing - What's the difference?

torturous | agonizing |

As adjectives the difference between torturous and agonizing

is that torturous is of or pertaining to torture while agonizing is causing agony.

As a verb agonizing is

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As a noun agonizing is

the act of one who agonizes.

torturous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to torture.
  • Painful, excruciating, torturing.

    • Usage notes

    * Sometimes confused with tortuous.

    Synonyms

    * tormentous

    agonizing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing agony.
    • It was an agonizing twenty-minute wait for the results.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who agonizes.
  • * 1918 , W. H. Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
    • I never breathed a word of my doubts and mental agonizings to my mother; I spoke to her only of my bodily sufferings; yet she knew it all, and I knew that she knew.