mental anguish

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   sustained dull painful emotion

   Broaderpain

Questions about mental anguish

What does mental anguish mean?

mental anguish means "sustained dull painful emotion".

Is mental anguish a common word?

mental anguish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.