different between furore vs discomposure

English

Alternative forms

• furor

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian furore, from Latin furor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fj???????i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fj????/

• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

furore (countable and uncountable, plural furores)

1. Uproar; enthusiastic anger.
2. Excitement or commotion.

Related terms

• fury

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Italian furore, from Latin furor (“frenzy, rage, madness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /furo?r?/, [fu??o??]

Noun

furore c (singular definite furoren, not used in plural form)

1. furore

Italian

Etymology

From Latin furor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?ro.re/
• Rhymes: -ore

Noun

furore m (plural furori)

1. fury, violence
2. frenzy
3. excitement

Related terms

• furia
• furoreggiare

Latin

Noun

fur?re

1. ablative singular of furor

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.