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neuralgia

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /njʊə.ral.d͡ʒə/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Acute emotional distress.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: neuralgy

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pain, hurting

Narrower terms: trigeminal neuralgia, tic douloureux, sciatica

History

Etymology

From New Latin neuralgia, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”). By surface analysis, neur- + -algia.

Across languages

Translations

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: senupyn — nerve pain
  • Afrikaans: senuweepyn — nerve pain
  • Catalan: neuràlgia — nerve pain
  • Chinese Mandarin: 神經痛 /神经痛 (shénjīngtòng) — nerve pain
  • Czech: neuralgie — nerve pain
  • Dutch: zenuwpijn — nerve pain
  • Dutch: neuralgie — nerve pain
  • Esperanto: neŭralgio — nerve pain
  • Finnish: hermosärky — nerve pain
  • Finnish: neuralgia — nerve pain
  • French: névralgie — nerve pain
  • German: Neuralgie — nerve pain
  • Greek: νευραλγία (nevralgía) — nerve pain
  • Ido: nevralgio — nerve pain
  • Irish: néarailge — nerve pain
  • Italian: nevralgia — nerve pain
  • Japanese: 神経痛 (shinkeitsū) — nerve pain
  • Norman: ceingl'ye — nerve pain
  • Norman: tic douloureux — nerve pain
  • Polish: nerwoból — nerve pain
  • Polish: newralgia — nerve pain
  • Polish: neuralgia — nerve pain
  • Portuguese: nevralgia — nerve pain
  • Portuguese: neuralgia — nerve pain
  • Russian: невралги́я (nevralgíja) — nerve pain
  • Scottish Gaelic: nearbh-phian — nerve pain
  • Spanish: neuralgia — nerve pain
  • Tagalog: sakit-dagandam — nerve pain
  • Tamil: குடைச்சல் (kuṭaiccal) — nerve pain
  • Turkish: nevralji — nerve pain