Neuralgia

Definitions

1. An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
   countable, uncountable
2. Acute emotional distress.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Ukrainian strikes on legitimate military targets far in the Russian rear continue⟳ to be points of neuralgia for the Russian milblogger community.”

CEFR level