hardship vs pang

hardship

verb
  • To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships. 

noun
  • Difficulty or trouble; hard times. 

  • A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier. 

pang

verb
  • To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. 

  • simple past tense of ping 

noun
  • A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. 

  • A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. 

How often have the words hardship and pang occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )