pain
Pain is any sort of mental or physical suffering or distress.
(noun)An example of pain is the feeling immediately after breaking a bone.
Pain is defined as to hurt or cause suffering.
(verb)An example of pain is for intense running to give a person cramps.
See pain in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- penalty or punishment: obs. except in , at the risk of bringing upon oneself (punishment, death, etc.)
- a sensation of hurting, or strong discomfort, in some part of the body, caused by an injury, disease, or functional disorder, and transmitted through the nervous system
- the distress or suffering, mental or physical, caused by great anxiety, anguish, grief, disappointment, etc.
- the labor of childbirth
- great care or effort: to take pains with one's work
- Slang an annoyance: often used in phrases specifying a part of the body (e.g., )
Origin: ME peine < OFr < L poena, penalty, punishment: see penal
transitive verb
intransitive verb
See pain in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- An unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder.
- Suffering or distress.
- pains The pangs of childbirth.
- pains Great care or effort: take pains with one's work.
- Informal A source of annoyance; a nuisance.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old French peine
Origin: , from Latin poena, penalty, pain
Origin: , from Greek poinē, penalty; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots
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Pain
See also disease and illness; injury; remedies.
producing pain.
a deriving of sexual pleasure from inflicting or enduring pain. Cf. masochism, sadism. —algolagnist, n. —algolagnic, adj.
measurement of pain by means of an algometer, an instrument for determining sensitivity to pain produced by pressure. —algometric, algometrical, adj.
a love of pain.
an extreme fear of pain. Cf. odynophobia.
audialgesia
otalgia.
pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
a burning or other painful feeling in the stomach or esophagus; heartburn.
Medicine.1. a pain in the head.
2. a headache. Also called cephalgia, cephalodynia.
pain in the hip joint.
dermatalgia
neuralgia of the skin.
dolorifuge
anything that drives away pain.
pain in the stomach or abdominal region.
1. Medicine. a pain or aching on one side of the head.
2. migraine.
hypalgia.
hypalgia
a decreased sensibility to pain. Also hypalgesia.
an unusually high sensitivity to pain. —hyperalgesic, adj.
pain in the uterus.
1. Psychiatry. a condition in which sexual gratification is achieved through suffering physical pain and humiliation, especially inflicted on oneself.
2. any gratification gained from pain or deprivation inflicted or imposed on oneself. Cf. sadism. —masochist, n. —masochistic, adj.
Medicine. a pain in a tooth. —odontalgic, adj.
odynophobia
an abnormal fear of pain.
Medicine. an earache. —otalgic, adj.
pain in the eyes caused by light.
pain in the rectum.
neuralgia affecting the face.
mental or psychic pain.
rachialgia
pain affecting the spine. —rachialgic, adj.
1. Psychiatry. a sexual gratification gained through causing physical pain or humiliation.
2. any enjoyment in being cruel. Cf. masochism. —sadist, n. —sadistic, adj.
Psychiatry. a condition of disturbed and destructive personality marked by the presence of both sadistic and masochistic traits. —sado-masochist, n. —sadomasochistic, adj.
an indifference to pleasure or pain. —stoic, n., adj. —stoical, adj.
synalgia
pain in one part of the body resulting from hurt or injury in another part; referred pain.
uteralgia
pain in the womb or uterus.
zoosadism
sadism directed toward animals. —zoosadist, n. —zoosadistic, adj.
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