neuralgia
/njʊə.ral.d͡ʒə/
neuralgia noun: an acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
Noun
neuralgia (countable and uncountable, plural neuralgias)
- An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
- Acute emotional distress.
- A century later, the UK’s post-Brexit dispute with Brussels about Northern Ireland’s trading arrangements with the EU has stirred the same neuralgia.2022 December 8, Philip Stephens, “Neuralgia clashes with exceptionalism in Northern Ireland”, in Financial Times, retrieved 16 Feb 2023
- Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.2022 December 26, Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, George Barros, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 26”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War...
neuralgia meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
neuralgia in Tamil
- nerve pain
- குடைச்சல் kuṭaiccal
neuralgia in Urdu
- درد اعصاب
neuralgia in Bengali
- স্নায়ুশূল
neuralgia in Malayalam
- ഞരമ്പുനോവ്, ഞരമ്പുവലി, സിരാവേദന
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- neuralgia in Tagalog
- sakit-dagandam
Synonyms of neuralgia
Forms of neuralgia
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Origin of neuralgia
From New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, neur- + -algia.
Words formed from neuralgia
Questions about neuralgia
- What does neuralgia mean?
- Neuralgia means an acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
- What is neuralgia in Tamil?
- Neuralgia in Tamil is குடைச்சல் (kuṭaiccal). See Neuralgia meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is neuralgia?
- Neuralgia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce neuralgia?
- Neuralgia is pronounced /njʊə.ral.d͡ʒə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of neuralgia?
- The plural of neuralgia is neuralgias.
Words near neuralgia in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: neuralgia (page history and authors); neuralgia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); neuralgia (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); neuralgia (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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