Timeline for Word to describe sitting in quiet anger
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| Jul 17, 2017 at 21:51 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | I'd make it boiling > fuming > seething > stewing. Boiling and fuming are more overt. A pot can be fuming before it reaches a full boil. Stewing implies some heat but not as much as seething. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 11:43 | comment | added | lly | @gnasher729 No academic source to point to for it, but I'd imagine the pattern you noted relates to the cooking fire being the most common touchstone for these degrees in the past. There are a few I didn't go into, though, that reference other fires or fire itself, such as smolder and blaze. | |
| Jul 16, 2017 at 20:47 | comment | added | gnasher729 | There seem to be quite a few words related to cooking. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 17:13 | comment | added | Tom22 | My sense of the flavor or 'stew' is when there is booth true anger, as in 'seethe' but the person using the description wants to imply a certain degree of sulking; when they want to imply that while anger is justified, the level of agitation might have a few dashes, of "sulking" to it. People can get angry without being hurt or feeling the world is unjust or upside down...and there is a bit of that in "stewed' in my opinion. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 15:20 | comment | added | I wrestled a bear once. | This is the word that immediately cane to mind when seeing the title. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 14:09 | comment | added | lly | No need. You inexplicably omitted the actual definition of your term, but you already linked to it. If you forgot, it includes the word violently, which is a step above fuming's great per the already linked definition, &c. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 14:05 | history | edited | lly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 15, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | ab2 | Please provide support for your hierarchy of suppressed anger. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 13:58 | history | answered | lly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |