neuralgy

Noun

neuralgia (countable and uncountable, plural neuralgias)

1. An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
2. (figuratively) 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