pain point n. a level of difficulty sufficient to motivate someone to seek a solution or an alternative; a problem or difficulty. Editorial Note: Thanks to Joel Rennich of Apple and AFP548 for tipping us off about this term. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
If you eat ice cream too quickly, the painful result is called an ice-cream headache, a cold headache, or brain freeze. But if you’d feel better using the medical term for it, it’s another mouthful: sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. This...
Dan from Elmira, New York, wonders if there’s such a thing as “structural” onomatopoeia, where the visual appearance or architecture of a written word suggests the meaning of the word. For example, he says, the word level is a...