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 | ||