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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;
- Example: "the pain of loneliness"
[syn: pain, painfulness]

2. the quality of being painful;
- Example: "she feared the painfulness of childbirth"
[syn: painfulness, distressingness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Painful \Pain"ful\, a. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. [1913 Webster] 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster] A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. [1913 Webster] -- Pain"ful*ly, adv. -- Pain"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

painfulness \pain"ful*ness\ n. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid. Syn: pain. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

painfulness n 1: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" [syn: pain, painfulness] [ant: pleasance, pleasure] 2: the quality of being painful; "she feared the painfulness of childbirth" [syn: painfulness, distressingness]