emotional distress

A highly unpleasant mental reaction (such as anguish, grief, fright, humiliation, or fury) that results from another person’s conduct; emotional pain and suffering.

• 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.]

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