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Discomfort (Psychology)

LC control no.sh2021005512
Topical headingDiscomfort (Psychology)
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Variant(s)Uneasiness (Psychology)
See alsoEmotions
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Found inWork cat: The cinema of discomfort, 2021: CIP galley (a cinema of discomfort; of the disquieting, the awkward and the embarrassing: the subject of this book. What is entailed in the films from which these examples come is usually some form of sustained discomfort that characterises the experience offered to the viewer throughout the navigation of their fictional worlds)
Merriam-Webster online, June 11, 2021: (Discomfort, noun, mental or physical uneasiness; verb; transitive verb, to make uncomfortable or uneasy)
OED online, viewed, June 11, 2021: (Discomfort, n., 4.b. The state, condition, or fact of being (mentally or physically) uncomfortable; uneasiness. Also: slight physical pain)