dolour

1. (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.Examples: "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."; "Gon[zalo]. When euery greefe is entertaind, / That's offer'd comes to th'entertainer. / Seb[astian]. A dollor. / Gon. Dolour comes to him indeed, you haue ſpoken truer then you purpos'd / Seb. You haue taken it wiſelier then I meant you ſhould."Synonyms: infelicity, joylessness, sadness, unhappiness, unjoyAntonyms: elation, felicity, happiness, joyUKliteraryuncountable

2. (countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.Examples: "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 […]"Synonyms: dolAntonyms: hedon, util, utile, utilonUKcountable