| NOUN | feeling | painfulness, pain | emotional distress |
|---|---|---|---|
| attribute | painfulness, distressingness | the quality of being painful |
| Meaning | emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | pain | |
| Narrower | distress, hurt, suffering | psychological suffering |
| growing pains | emotional distress arising during adolescence | |
| mental anguish | sustained dull painful emotion | |
| suffering, hurt | Feelings of mental or physical pain | |
| unpleasantness | The feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli | |
| Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| Opposite | pleasure, pleasance | A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience |
| Spanish | aflicción, angustia, dolor, pesadumbre, pesar | |
| Catalan | aflicció, angoixa, dolor, pesar | |
| Adjectives | painful | causing physical or psychological pain |
| painful | causing misery or pain or distress / distress | |
| Meaning | The quality of being painful. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "she feared the painfulness of childbirth" | |
| Synonym | distressingness | |
| Narrower | sharpness | The quality of being keenly and painfully felt |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Adjectives | painful | causing physical or psychological pain |
| painful | causing physical discomfort | |
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