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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