English noun: painfulness | |||
1. | painfulness (feeling) emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | ||
Samples | The pain of loneliness. | ||
Synonyms | pain | ||
Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | distress, growing pains, hurt, hurt, mental anguish, suffering, suffering, unpleasantness | ||
Antonyms | pleasure, pleasance | ||
2. | painfulness (attribute) the quality of being painful | ||
Samples | She feared the painfulness of childbirth. | ||
Synonyms | distressingness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | sharpness | ||