Pain
Pain noun - A sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body.
Sickness and pain are semantically related. in physical suffering topic. In some cases you can use "Sickness" instead a noun "Pain".
Sickness
Sickness noun - The condition of not being in good health.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human pain | human sickness |
| physical | physical pain | physical sickness |
| complete | complete pain | complete sickness |
| total | total pain | total sickness |
| Other adjectives: mild, actual, real, perpetual, severe, extreme, terrible, horrible, mental, general, apparent, worst, chronic, giant, resulting, crippling, debilitating. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The point is healing others causes them to feel pain or sickness themselves, making it a real sacrifice every time they heal.
Source: Empathic Healer -
Little Willie Connolly uses poppets to cause sickness and pain in J.R.
Source: Voodoo Doll - Erza also employs this on Natsu once to save him the pain of crippling motion sickness.
Source: Percussive Prevention
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