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pain vs smarting

smarting vs pain

pain and smarting both are nouns.

pain is a verb but smarting is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pain Yes No Yes No
smarting Yes No No No
As nouns, smarting is a hyponym of pain; that is, smarting is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pain:
  • pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
  • smarting: a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
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, photophobia, costalgia, pleuralgia, pleurodynia, podalgia, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, smart, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, tenderness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.
pain (noun) smarting (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
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) smarting (verb)
cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
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