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pain vs neuralgia

neuralgia vs pain

pain and neuralgia both are nouns.

pain is a verb but neuralgia is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
neuralgia Yes No No No
As nouns, neuralgia is a hyponym of pain; that is, neuralgia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • neuralgia: acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
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, growing pains, keratalgia, labor pain, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, metralgia, myalgia, myodynia, nephralgia, 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) neuralgia (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
pain (verb) neuralgia (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
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