pain tolerance
Discomfort endurance capacity
Pain tolerance is the amount of pain someone can endure before it becomes unbearable.
It varies widely between individuals and can be affected by factors like fatigue, stress, and prior experience: Marathon runners develop high pain tolerance, Her pain tolerance surprised the doctors.
Distinguished from pain threshold, which is the point at which a sensation begins to register as painful.
- enduranceSustained effort capacity
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- gritDetermination or abrasive particles
- mind over matterWill overcoming physical constraints
numbness · stoic · grin and bear it · bite the bullet · wince · grimace · suffering · resilience · ache · nerve · nerve endings · sharp · dull · dull ache · chronic · withstand · gritting · teeth
- Sensory limitsthreshold, hearing range, blind spot, color blindness, night vision
- painache, agony, hurt, hurting, suffering
- personalitypersonality, trait, temperament, traits, character
- body traitsheight, weight, body shape, build, stature
- endurancestamina, endure, perseverance, persistence, staying power
- resilienceresilience, grit, bounce back, bouncing back, robustness
pain tolerancefragility
Ease of breaking
vulnerability · pain avoidance · weakness · delicacy · squeamishness
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