seizure or fit

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00seizure is more nigative than fit simply because seizure is a sudden attack of a chronic illness whereas fit is a suden short attack of an illness.010id1

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01i00Seizure02i00 is medical. You can have a big seizure or a little seizure. (Grand mal or petite mal).02br
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01i00Fit02i00 is slang. 01i00Fit02i00 is also used figuratively. "My mother had a fit when I came home at 1 in the mornin

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0I mostly agree with Grammar Geek. Fit and seizure can be used synonymously in some context and both can be used as slang but seizure is more of a medical term and fit is more often used in a negative context. 00 00 02br
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00He’s having an epileptic fit or he’s having an epileptic seizure are both correct.02br
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Wrong. You can have a one-time seizure. There is no difference.

Thank you very much. As a person who has epilepsy, I find the term "fit" very derogatory and offended by it. I have overseas relatives who use it and I become very angry by it.

Lucky6He’s having an epileptic fit or he’s having an epileptic seizure are both correct.

If you visit the Epilepsy site, www.epilepsy.com you will not find any mention of 'fit', but you will find mention of non-epileptic seizures.
Fits can be both from medical conditions and from accidentally swallowing too much air or a particle of food. In the figurati

If you tell someone in my culture that they had a fit you wont get a happy response. In will.be more negative because the word itself implies some sort of emotional imbalance. The young child had a fit. The young american had a fit when reading this thread and threw his cell out the window

My 1939 Roget’s Thesaurus has twenty-one meanings of ‘fit’.
By comparison, the same book has only one meaning of seizure. (Section 925: The absence of right under ‘Moral obligations’)
Typical (Canadian) usage of Seizure: – Noun – the Government has the right of seizure (the act of taking possession) of illegally held drugs, alcohol, buildings, or land.

My point being that the wo