different between intimidation vs discomfort

English

Etymology

From French intimidation, from Medieval Latin as if *intimidatio, from intimidare (“to intimidate”); see intimidate.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

intimidation (countable and uncountable, plural intimidations)

1. The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated
   • 1920, Warren G. Harding, Liberty Under the Law

     It broadly includes all the people with specific recognition for none, and the highest consecration we can make today is a committal of the Republican party to that saving constitutionalism which contemplates all America as one people and holds just government free from influence on the one hand, and unmoved by intimidation on the other.

Related terms

• intimidate
• intimidating
• intimidatingly

Translations

References

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

French

Pronunciation

Noun

intimidation f (plural intimidations)

1. intimidation

English

Etymology

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?mf?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?mf?t/

Noun

discomfort (countable and uncountable, plural discomforts)

1. Mental or bodily distress.
2. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.

Translations

Verb

discomfort (third-person singular simple present discomforts, present participle discomforting, simple past and past participle discomforted)

1. To cause annoyance or distress to.
2. (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.

Usage notes

As a verb, the unrelated term discomfit is often used instead, largely interchangeably, though this is proscribed by some as an error, discomfit originally meaning “destroy”, not “distress”.

Derived terms

• discomforter

See also

• discomfit