painfulness
1. the quality of being painful
- she feared the painfulness of childbirth
• Syn:
distressingness
• Derivationally related forms:
painful
• Hypernyms:
quality
• Hyponyms:
sharpness
2. emotional distress;
a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- the pain of loneliness
• Syn:
pain
• Ant:
pleasure (for: pain)
• Derivationally related forms:
painful, pain (for: pain)
• Hypernyms:
feeling
• Hyponyms:
growing pains, unpleasantness, mental anguish, suffering, hurt, distress
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