hurting vs referred pain

referred pain vs hurting

hurting and referred pain both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hurting	Yes	No	No	No
referred pain	Yes	No	No	No

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

hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
referred pain: pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected

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, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.

hurting (noun)	referred pain (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected

Difference between hurting and referred pain

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