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Noun: painfulness  peyn-ful-nus
  1. Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
    - pain
     
  2. The quality of being painful
    "she feared the painfulness of childbirth"
    - distressingness

Derived forms: painfulnesses

See also: painful

Type of: feeling, quality

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