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Painfulness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    the quality of being painful wordnet
  3. 3
    The state or quality of being tedious, of requiring great care. uncountable, usually

    "Near-synonyms: tediousness, laboriousness"

  4. 4
    emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English peynfulnes, peynfulnesse, equivalent to painful + -ness.

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