hurting vs sting

sting vs hurting

hurting and sting both are nouns.

hurting is not a verb while sting is a verb.

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

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

hurting: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
sting: a mental pain or distress

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

hurting (noun)	sting (noun)
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
	operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
	a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
	a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
	a mental pain or distress

hurting (verb)	sting (verb)
	saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
	deliver a sting to
	cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
	cause a stinging pain
	cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

Difference between hurting and sting

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