hurting vs photophobia

photophobia vs hurting

hurting and photophobia both are nouns.

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

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

hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
photophobia: pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)

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, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pang, pang, sting, photalgia, 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)	photophobia (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)
	a morbid fear of light

Difference between hurting and photophobia

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