Definition for Painfulness:

• The quality or state of being painful.

Synonyms for Painfulness:

• n.

  •awkwardness (noun)
  • discomfort,
  • stickiness,
  • delicacy,
  • inconvenience,
  • trouble.
  •bitterness (noun)
  • anguish,
  • venom,
  • sarcasm,
  • distress,
  • pain,
  • asperity,
  • hostility,
  • mordancy,
  • harshness,
  • virulence.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • hazard,
  • quagmire,
  • strain,
  • laboriousness,
  • tribulation,
  • obstruction,
  • labor,
  • arduousness,
  • hardship,
  • hitch,
  • mess,
  • perplexity,
  • deep water,
  • muddle,
  • check,
  • paradox,
  • dilemma,
  • stumbling block,
  • fix,
  • exigency,
  • stew,
  • emergency,
  • pickle,
  • crisis,
  • adversity,
  • scrape,
  • quandary,
  • deadlock,
  • complication,
  • barricade,
  • obstacle,
  • impasse,
  • frustration,
  • snag,
  • misfortune,
  • hindrance,
  • hot water,
  • knot,
  • dead end,
  • crux,
  • strenuousness,
  • struggle,
  • strait,
  • predicament.
  •feeling (noun)
  • painfulness.
  •pain (noun)
  • headache,
  • spasm,
  • stab,
  • affliction,
  • chafing,
  • grief,
  • inflammation,
  • infliction,
  • wrench,
  • misery,
  • throb,
  • burn,
  • injury,
  • Migraine,
  • agony,
  • pang,
  • wound,
  • cramp,
  • bite,
  • smarting,
  • stitch,
  • ache,
  • suffering,
  • earache,
  • rack,
  • irritation,
  • crick,
  • torture,
  • throe,
  • hurt,
  • torment,
  • sore,
  • sting,
  • gripe,
  • bruise,
  • malaise,
  • Back Ache.
  •painfulness (noun)
  • odiousness,
  • irksomeness,
  • offensiveness,
  • cruelty,
  • severity,
  • hurtfulness,
  • soreness,
  • woefulness,
  • acuteness,
  • annoyingness,
  • distressfulness,
  • oppressiveness,
  • aggravation.
  •unpleasantness (noun)
  • foulness,
  • nastiness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • awkwardness,
  • bitterness,
  • difficulty,
  • distastefulness,
  • inopportuneness,
  • uncomfortableness,
  • unpleasantness,
  • untimeliness,
  • Acrimoniousness,
  • Horribleness,
  • grievousness,
  • ticklishness,
  • thorniness.

Antonyms for Painfulness:

• n.

  • awkwardness
    contentment, easiness, convenience, cleverness, straightforwardness, skill, grace, ease, dexterity, elegance, peace, artfulness, advantage, handiness.
  • bitterness
    geniality, joy, comfort, happiness, Sweetness.
  • difficulty
    favor, satisfaction, order, help, promotion, felicity, health, calm, aid, pleasure, harmony, blessing, organization, success, assistance, benefit, calmness, solution, tranquility, opening, encouragement, good health.
  • unpleasantness
    friendliness, pleasantness, kindness, agreement.
  • Other antonyms:
    pleasance.

Painfulness Sentence Examples:

• What would life be worth without its occasional enthusiasm, laughable in the retrospect, perhaps, but in itself pleasurable almost to the point of painfulness?

• In the gout also it is highly useful, and with the addition of half an ounce of gum arabic, it has been found to allay the painfulness of the attendant heat.

Hypernym for Painfulness:

• n.

  • feeling
    hurt, distress, suffering, mental anguish, unpleasantness, growing pains.

Hyponym for Painfulness:

• n.

  • feeling
    feeling.