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Unease vs Anguish - What's the difference?

unease | anguish | Related terms |

Unease is a related term of anguish.


As nouns the difference between unease and anguish

is that unease is a feeling of disquiet or concern while anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.

As a verb anguish is

to suffer pain.

unease

English

Noun

(-)
  • A feeling of disquiet or concern.

    • Synonyms

    * uneasiness

    Related terms

    * uneasy

    anguish

    English

    Noun

  • Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
  • * Bible, Exodus vi. 9
    • But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
  • * Latimer
    • Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
  • * 1889 , :
    • A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish —burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.

    Synonyms

    * agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment * See also:

    Related terms

    () * agnail, hangnail * anger * angst * anxiety * anxious * terminal anguish

    Verb

    (es)
  • To suffer pain.
  • * (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
    • We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish , it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
  • To cause to suffer pain.

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