different between frisson vs shudder

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French frisson. Doublet of friction.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?i?.s???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f?i?so?n/, /f?i?sõ?n/

Noun

frisson (plural frissons)

1. A sudden surge of excitement.
2. A shiver, a thrill.

Translations

Anagrams

• Frisons

French

Etymology

From Late Latin *fr?cti?, from Latin fr?ge? (“to be cold”). Unrelated to the Classical Latin fricti?, borrowed as French friction.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?i.s??/

Noun

frisson m (plural frissons)

1. A shiver or thrill of fright that can be strangely pleasurable, as when reading good horror fiction.
2. An experience of intense excitement.

Related terms

• froid

Further reading

• “frisson” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• frisons

English

Etymology

From Middle English *shudderen, *schuderen (suggested by Middle English shuddering, schudering (“shaking, quivering, shuddering”)), from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skewd?-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Homophone: shutter (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: shud?der

Noun

shudder (plural shudders)

1. A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
2. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

Synonyms

• (shivering tremor): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver
• (frisson): shiver (cold), quiver, tingle, thrill

Translations

Verb

shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Synonyms

• (shake nervously): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake
• (vibrate jerkily): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

Translations

See also

• judder

References