[Lightspeed]

I don't know what kind of absurd clinical term you have in mind.

A parent beating their kid about, the only violence perpetuated on the kid is the knock they got against dresser as they got shoved in their room, the belt marks along their legs. But there is nothing violent about the child's soul being crushed by the full weight of their parent's anger being thrust upon them. Even though from the kid's perspective, both were sudden, shocking and very painful.

I get in some contexts that the word specifically or typically means physical. But words having meaning in their context isn't new, right?