hurting vs neuralgy

neuralgy vs hurting

hurting and neuralgy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hurting	Yes	No	No	No
neuralgy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, neuralgy is a hyponym of hurting; that is, neuralgy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hurting:

hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
neuralgy: acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Other hyponyms of hurting include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, glossalgia, glossodynia, growing pains, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, neuralgia, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, sting, photalgia, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.

hurting (noun)	neuralgy (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Difference between hurting and neuralgy

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