spasm vs twitching
twitching vs spasmspasm and twitching both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spasm | Yes | No | No | No |
| twitching | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
twitching is a hyponym of
spasm; that is, twitching is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
spasm:
- spasm: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- twitching: a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
Other hyponyms of spasm include
charley-horse, charley horse, graphospasm, writer's cramp, blepharospasm, crick, kink, rick, wrick, myoclonus, opisthotonos, twitch, vellication, tenesmus, trismus.
| spasm (noun) | twitching (noun) |
|---|---|
| (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition |
| a painful and involuntary muscular contraction |
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