[ ik-skroo-shee-ey-ting ] show ipa. See synonyms for: excruciatingexcruciatingly on Thesaurus.com. adjective. extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: an excruciating noise;excruciating pain.
distress, suffering, misery, agony mean the state of being in great trouble. distress implies an external and usually temporary cause of great physical or mental strain and stress. the hurricane put everyone in great distress. suffering implies conscious endurance of pain or distress.
nounsevere upset or pain. affliction. agony. distress. dole.
Some common synonyms of agony are distress, misery, and suffering. While all these words mean "the state of being in great trouble," agony suggests pain too intense to be borne.
: to try hard (to do something) He took (great) pains to explain the situation to us.
extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing: an excruciating noise;excruciating pain.
adjective. If you describe something as unbearable, you mean that it is so unpleasant, painful, or upsetting that you feel unable to accept it or deal with it. [...]
/ˈeɪŋgwɪʃ/ The noun anguish refers to severe physical or emotional pain or distress.
“Psychogenic pain” is an outdated term for pain that happens due to, or is worse because of, factors other than illness or injury. Those factors include mental health, personal history and more.
An affliction makes you suffer, but you have to deal with it anyway. Diseases are often said to be afflictions, but the word can mean just about anything that causes great suffering. The word afflict, which makes up the first part of the word, means to cause this type of trouble.
torment. verb. to make someone suffer severe physical or mental pain, often deliberately.
Worse than suffering is ignorance. By our suffering we may expiate the suffering we have caused, but most of the time we feel that our suffering is undeserved. This is because we have forgotten most of the selfish acts we have commmitted. And so we go on, endlessly committing more.
four sufferings ［四苦］ ( shi-ku): The four universal sufferings: birth, aging, sickness, and death. Various sutras describe Shakyamuni's quest for enlightenment as motivated by a desire to find a solution to these four sufferings.
Based on his own vast researches the author characterizes three kinds of man's suffering: physical (pain, somatic diseases), psychical (hardships, mental disorders and illnesses) and spiritual (lack of a meaningful life, moral dilemmas).
Nociceptive pain – Common but misused term (means “painful pain”), which might be replaced by “physiological pain.” This may result from activity in neural pathways caused by potentially tissue-damaging stimuli, including postoperative pain, arthritis, mechanical low back pain, sickle cell crisis, sports/exercise ...
agony, anguish, pang. These words agree in expressing extreme pain of body or mind.
When it intensifies to level 8, pain makes even holding a conversation extremely difficult and your physical activity is severely impaired. Pain is said to be at level 9 when it is excruciating, prevents you speaking and may even make you moan or cry out. Level 10 pain is unbearable.
Types of pain scales
Numeric rating scale: This uses a 1 to 10 scale to allow patients to rate their pain. Zero is considered no pain; 1 to 3 is mild pain; 4 to 6 is moderate pain and 7 to 10 is severe pain.
Buddhist teachings describe three main “levels or types of suffering. The first is called 'the suffering of suffering', the second, 'the suffering of change', and the third is 'the suffering of conditioning'” [5,6].
What's missing from the conversation, as Atul Gawande and others have eloquently argued, is the deeply uncomfortable fact that there are things that can be worse than death: loss of dignity, loss of agency, or loss of a sense of purpose, to name a few.
sufferer Add to list Share. Other forms: sufferers. Definitions of sufferer. a person suffering from an illness. synonyms: diseased person, sick person.
Duḥkha (/ˈduːkə/; Sanskrit: दुःख; Pāli: dukkha), commonly translated as "suffering", "pain", or "unhappiness", is an important concept in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism.