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pain vs neuralgy

neuralgy vs pain

pain and neuralgy both are nouns.

pain is a verb but neuralgy is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
neuralgy Yes No No No
As nouns, neuralgy is a hyponym of pain; that is, neuralgy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • neuralgy: 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, neuralgia, 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) neuralgy (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) neuralgy (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
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