phrenalgia

English

Etymology

From phren- +‎ -algia.

Noun

phrenalgia (uncountable)

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

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