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phrenalgia

phrenalgia noun: psychalgia; non-physical pain.

Noun

phrenalgia (uncountable)

  1. psychalgia; non-physical pain
    • ...compelled me to seek a talisman against homesickness and the nervous troubles which learned men call Phrenalgia and Autophobia.1880, Luís de Camões, translated by Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, page xv
  2. pain in the diaphragm

Origin of phrenalgia

From phren- + -algia.

Questions about phrenalgia

What does phrenalgia mean?
Phrenalgia means psychalgia; non-physical pain.
What part of speech is phrenalgia?
Phrenalgia is a noun.

Words near phrenalgia in the dictionary

  1. phreatophyte
  2. phreatophytes
  3. phreatophytic
  4. phren
  5. phren-
  6. phrenalgia
  7. phrenectomies
  8. phrenectomy
  9. phrenemphraxis
  10. phrenes
  11. phreneses

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