pain vs tenderness

tenderness vs pain

pain and tenderness both are nouns.

pain is a verb but tenderness is not a verb.

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

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

pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
tenderness: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

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, smarting, smartness, sting, stinging, stitch, rawness, soreness, thermalgesia, throb, torment, torture, ulalgia, urodynia.

pain (noun)	tenderness (noun)
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort	a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness	a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid	a positive feeling of liking
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder	warm compassionate feelings
	a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

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

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