'Painfulness' definitions:
Definition of 'painfulness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" [syn: pain, painfulness] [ant: pleasance, pleasure]
noun
The quality of being painful; "she feared the painfulness of childbirth" [syn: painfulness, distressingness]
Definition of 'Painfulness'
From: GCIDE
- Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. [1913 Webster] -- {Pain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'painfulness'
From: GCIDE
- painfulness \pain"ful*ness\ n. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.
- Syn: pain. [WordNet 1.5]
Words containing 'Painfulness'
- Pain,
- Pained,
- Painful,
- Painfully,
- Paining,
- Pains,
- be at pains,
- paine,
- Paine Field,
- To die in the pain,
- chest pain,
- growing pains,
- labor pain,
- labor pains,
- labour pains,
- lumbar pain,
- mental pain,
- pain in the ass,
- pain in the neck,
- pain killer,
- pain pill,
- pain sensation,
- pain threshold,
- pain unit,
- painful sensation,
- referred pain,
- take pains,
- thomas paine,
- tom paine,
- Bill of pains and penalties,
- Paine Field, WA,
- To pain one's self,
- pain-free,
- painful vs painless,
- phantom limb pain,
- robert treat paine,
- pleasure-pain principle,
- Paine Field-Lake Stickney,
- Paine Field-Lake Stickney, WA