pain vs photophobia

photophobia vs pain

pain and photophobia both are nouns.

pain is a verb but photophobia is not a verb.

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

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

pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
photophobia: 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, photalgia, 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)	photophobia (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	a morbid fear of light
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder

pain (verb)	photophobia (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable

Difference between pain and photophobia

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