painfulness
State of aching
Painfulness is the quality of causing pain or distress.
Physical painfulness describes how much something hurts: The painfulness of the injury kept him awake.
Emotional painfulness captures how difficult something is to endure: the painfulness of watching a parent decline.
The word often appears in comparisons: The painfulness of the procedure varies from person to person.
Intense mental suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- traumaLasting psychological wound
agony · torment · despair · sorrow · misery · woe · bereavement · melancholy
Persistent dull discomfort
- throbbingRhythmic painful pulsing
- sorenessTender, painful sensation
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- rawnessUnrefined or exposed state
inflammation · swelling · cramping · stinging · burning · shooting · gnawing · sensitivity
anguish
Intense mental suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
trauma · agony · torment · despair · sorrow · misery · woe · bereavement · melancholy · sadness
ache
Persistent dull discomfort
- throbbingRhythmic painful pulsing
- sorenessTender, painful sensation
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
rawness · inflammation · swelling · cramping · stinging · burning · shooting · gnawing · sensitivity · discomfort
excruciating
Causing extreme suffering
- unbearableImpossible to endure
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
extreme · debilitating · agonizing · intense · brutal · grueling · piercing · harsh · biting · punishing
painfulnesspainlessness
Lack of physical suffering
pleasure · comfort · pleasantness · enjoyableness · numbness
painfulnesspleasure
Happy, satisfied feeling
happiness · joy · bliss · contentment · delight
painfulnessease
Lack of strain
effortlessness · easiness · convenience · smoothness · simplicity
pain, painful, pained, painkiller, paining, painkillers, painlessly, painlessness