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painfulness

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pain·ful  (pnfl)
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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Noun1.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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