photalgia

1. 1.

   pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)

   Synonymsphotophobia

   Broaderpain

Other forms of photalgia

plural

photalgias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about photalgia

What does photalgia mean?

photalgia means "pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism)".

How many syllables are in photalgia?

photalgia has 4 syllables: pho-tal-gi-a. The stress falls on "tal".

What is another word for photalgia?

Close synonyms include photophobia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photalgia a common word?

photalgia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.