different between fretfulness vs discomposure

fretfulness

English

Etymology

fretful +? -ness

Noun

fretfulness (usually uncountable, plural fretfulnesses)

  1. The quality of being fretful.

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discomposure

English

Etymology

dis- +? composure

Noun

discomposure (countable and uncountable, plural discomposures)

  1. The state of being discomposed.
    • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
      And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal would have been full of many dull things[.]
  2. (obsolete) Discordance; disagreement of parts.
    • But this is wrought by emission , or suppression , or suffocation , of the native spirits ; and also by the disordination and discomposure of the tangible parts , and other passages of nature , and not by a conflict of heats

References

  • discomposure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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