Difference between Pest and Pestilence

What is the difference between Pest and Pestilence?

Pest as a noun is a plague, pestilence, epidemic while Pestilence as a noun is any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

Pest

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A plague, pestilence, epidemic An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature. An annoying person. Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.

Example sentence: Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

Pestilence

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.

We hope you now know whether to use Pest or Pestilence in your sentence.

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