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pain vs pang

pang vs pain

pain and pang both are nouns.

pain is a verb but pang is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
pang Yes No No No
As nouns, pang is a hyponym of pain; that is, pang is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • pang: a sharp spasm of pain
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, neuralgy, odynophagia, orchidalgia, 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) pang (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort a sudden sharp feeling
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness a sharp spasm of pain
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid a mental pain or distress
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
pain (verb) pang (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
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