painfulness

Definitions of painfulness

1. noun

   the quality of being painful
   “she feared the painfulness of childbirth”

   synonyms: distressingness

   types:

   sharpness

   the quality of being keenly and painfully felt

   type of:

   quality

   an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
2. noun

   emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
   synonyms: pain

   types:

   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

   agony, torment, torture

   intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

   throes

   violent pangs of suffering

   discomfort, irritation, soreness

   an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

   anguish, torment, torture

   extreme mental distress

   self-torment, self-torture

   self-imposed distress

   tsoris

   (Yiddish) trouble and suffering

   wound

   a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)

   type of:

   feeling

   the experiencing of affective and emotional states