painfulness

1. Emotional distress;
   A fundamental feeling that people try to avoid (synset 107509503)
   "the pain of loneliness"
   is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: pain
2. The quality of being painful (synset 104727300)
   "she feared the painfulness of childbirth"
   is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
   subtypes: sharpness - the quality of being keenly and painfully felt
   same as: distressingness

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