painfulness

pain·ful (p

adj.

1. Causing pain.

2. Full of pain.

3. Requiring care and labor; irksome: a painful task.

4. Archaic Diligent; careful.

painful·ly adv.

painful·ness n.

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Noun	1.	painfulness - emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" pain feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" growing pains - emotional distress arising during adolescence unpleasantness - the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling mental anguish - sustained dull painful emotion hurt, suffering - feelings of mental or physical pain distress, hurt, suffering - psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress"
	2.	painfulness - the quality of being painful; "she feared the painfulness of childbirth" distressingness sharpness - the quality of being keenly and painfully felt; "the sharpness of her loss" quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

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hurt
inflammation
irritation
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The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous.

The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context

But even the novelty and painfulness of his going to a Papistical land could no displace for long Mr and Mrs Clare's natural interest in their son's marriage.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

Another circumstance which decided him to postpone pursuit of the Arabs was the painfulness of his wound.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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