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In some senses, dolour is marked as literary, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
But for all this thou ſhalt haue as many Dolors for thy Daughters, as thou canſt tell in a yeare.
In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress […]