different between horrification vs horrify

English

Etymology

horror +? -ification, or alternatively horrific +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h???f??ke???n/, /?h???f??ke???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h???f??ke???n/, /?h???f??ke???n/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?h???f??kæe??n/

Noun

horrification (countable and uncountable, plural horrifications)

1. That which causes horror.
   • 1801, Maria Edgeworth, Belinda

     As the old woman and her miserable light went on before us, I could almost have thought of Sir Bertrand, or of some German horrifications […]

English

Etymology

horror +? -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h???fa?/
• (US) enPR: hôr??-f?, IPA^(key): /?h???fa?/

Verb

horrify (third-person singular simple present horrifies, present participle horrifying, simple past and past participle horrified)

1. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

   The haunted house was horrifying, from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:frighten

Derived terms

• horrification

Related terms

• horrible
• horrid
• horrific
• horror
• horrendous

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