different between anger vs vehemence

English

Etymology

From Middle English anger (“grief, pain, trouble, affliction, vexation, sorrow, wrath”), from Old Norse angr, ?ngr (“affliction, sorrow”) (compare Old Norse ang, ?ng (“troubled”)), from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (“grief, sorrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?en??- (“narrow, tied together”). Cognate with Danish anger (“regret, remorse”), Norwegian Bokmål anger (“regret, remorse”), Swedish ånger (“regret”), Icelandic angur (“trouble”), Old English ange, enge (“narrow, close, straitened, constrained, confined, vexed, troubled, sorrowful, anxious, oppressive, severe, painful, cruel”), Dutch anjer (“carnation”), German Angst (“anxiety, anguish, fear”), Latin ang? (“squeeze, choke, vex”), Albanian ang (“fear, anxiety, pain, nightmare”), Avestan angra (angra, “destructive”), Ancient Greek ???? (ánkh?, “I squeeze, strangle”), Sanskrit ???? (a?hu, “anxiety, distress”). Also compare with English anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perhaps to awe and ugly. The word seems to have originally meant “to choke, squeeze”.

The verb is from Middle English angren, angeren, from Old Norse angra. Compare with Icelandic angra, Norwegian Nynorsk angra, Norwegian Bokmål angre, Swedish ångra, Danish angre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ???(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ???/
• Rhymes: -æ???(?)
• Hyphenation: an?ger

Noun

anger (countable and uncountable, plural angers)

1. A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

2. (obsolete) Pain or stinging.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:anger

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

anger (third-person singular simple present angers, present participle angering, simple past and past participle angered)

1. (transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.

   He who angers you conquers you.

2. (intransitive) To become angry.

   You anger too easily.

Synonyms

• (to cause anger): enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate
• (to become angry): get angry (see angry for more)

Translations

References

• anger in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• Agner, Negar, Regan, areng, grane, range, rangé, regna, renga

Cornish

Noun

anger m

1. anger (strong feeling of displeasure)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse angr, from Proto-Germanic *angazaz.

Alternative forms

• angre, angir, angyr, hanger, angur, aunger, angure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an??r/

Noun

anger (plural angers)

1. Grief, painfulness, or discomfort; a feeling of pain or sadness.
2. A trouble, affliction, or vexation; something that inflicts pain or hardship.
3. Angriness, ire; the state of being angry, enraged, or wrathful.
4. Indignation, spitefulness; the feeling of being wronged or treated unfairly.
5. (rare) Irritableness; the state of being in a foul mood.

Derived terms

• angerly
• angren
• angry

Descendants

• English: anger
• Scots: anger

References

• “anger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-29.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse angra.

Verb

anger

1. Alternative form of angren

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse angr.

Noun

anger m (definite singular angeren) (uncountable)

1. regret, remorse, contrition, repentance, penitence

Related terms

• angre
• bondeanger

References

• “anger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

anger

1. present tense of ange.

Anagrams

• genar, regna

English

Etymology

From Middle French vehemence, from Latin vehementia (“eagerness, strength”), from vehemens (“eager”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??m?n(t)s/, /?vi?h?m?n(t)s/

Noun

vehemence (usually uncountable, plural vehemences)

1. An intense concentration, force or power.

   The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.

2. A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.

   His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence.

   • 2016 February 6, "Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace," The National (retrieved 8 February 2016):

     This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.

3. Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 1:

     I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy

Related terms

• vehemency
• vehement

Translations

Further reading

• vehemence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vehemence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vehemence at OneLook Dictionary Search