painfulness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: painfulness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for painfulness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
painfulness n emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; "the pain of loneliness" Synonym(s): pain, painfulness Antonym(s): pleasance, pleasure the quality of being painful; "she feared the painfulness of childbirth" Synonym(s): painfulness, distressingness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Painful \Pain"ful\, a. 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing. --Addison. 2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller. A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer. Taylor. Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden. Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing; grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. -- {Pain"fully}, adv. -- {Pain"fulness}, n.