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notalgia

notalgia noun: back pain.

Noun

notalgia (uncountable)

  1. back pain
    • An acquaintance of mine was fortunate enough to discover the most impressive word notalgia for back-ache.1946, George Mikes, “How to be a General Alien”, in How to be an Alien (fiction), →ISBN, The Language

notalgia meaning in Tamil

notalgia in Tamil

முதுகுவலி

Synonyms of notalgia

Origin of notalgia

From noto- + -algia.

Words formed from notalgia

  • notalgia paraesthetica
  • notalgia paresthetica
  • notalgic

Questions about notalgia

What does notalgia mean?
Notalgia means back pain.
What is notalgia in Tamil?
Notalgia in Tamil is முதுகுவலி. See Notalgia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is notalgia?
Notalgia is a noun.

Words near notalgia in the dictionary

  1. notaea
  2. notaeum
  3. NOTAFLOF
  4. Notah
  5. notal
  6. notalgia
  7. notalgic
  8. notalian
  9. notam
  10. notams
  11. notanda

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Adapted from Wiktionary: notalgia (page history and authors); notalgia (Tamil 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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