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pain vs distress

distress vs pain

pain and distress both are nouns.

pain and distress both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
distress Yes No Yes No
As nouns, distress is a hyponym of pain; that is, distress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
  • distress: psychological suffering
Other hyponyms of pain include growing pains, unpleasantness, mental anguish, hurt, suffering, hurt, suffering.
As nouns, distress is a hyponym of pain; that is, distress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • distress: extreme physical pain
Other hyponyms of pain include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, 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, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.
pain (noun) distress (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness psychological suffering
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid extreme physical pain
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)
pain (verb) distress (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed cause mental pain to
cause emotional anguish or make miserable bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
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