• Emotional distress, when severe enough, can form a basis for the recovery of tort damages.
— Also termed emotional harm; mental anguish; mental distress; mental suffering. See INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS; NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS. Cf. mental cruelty under CRUELTY. [Cases: Damages 48–56.20. C.J.S. Damages §§ 94–104; Parent and Child § 344; Torts §§ 66–83.]