pain vs photalgia

photalgia vs pain

pain and photalgia both are nouns.

pain is a verb but photalgia is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pain	Yes	No	Yes	No
photalgia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, photalgia is a hyponym of pain; that is, photalgia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:

pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
photalgia: pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)

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, pang, pang, sting, 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)	photalgia (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort	pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)
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)	photalgia (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable

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