frisson vs fright

frisson and fright both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
frisson	Yes	No	No	No
fright	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, fright is a hypernym of frisson; that is, fright is a word with a broader meaning than frisson:

frisson: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
fright: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

Other hypernyms of frisson include fear, fearfulness.

frisson (noun)	fright (noun)
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright	an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

frisson (verb)	fright (verb)
	cause fear in