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pain vs growing pains

growing pains vs pain

pain and growing pains both are nouns.

pain is a verb but growing pains is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
growing pains Yes No No No
As nouns, growing pains is a hyponym of pain; that is, growing pains is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
  • growing pains: emotional distress arising during adolescence
Other hyponyms of pain include unpleasantness, mental anguish, hurt, suffering, distress, hurt, suffering.
As nouns, growing pains is a hyponym of pain; that is, growing pains is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • growing pains: pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
Other hyponyms of pain include ache, aching, agony, excruciation, suffering, arthralgia, burn, burning, causalgia, colic, gripes, griping, intestinal colic, chest pain, chiralgia, distress, dysmenorrhea, glossalgia, glossodynia, 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) growing pains (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness emotional distress arising during adolescence
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
pain (verb) growing pains (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
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