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Meaning of "painfulness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PAINFULNESS

ˈpeɪnfəlnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAINFULNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Painfulness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PAINFULNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of painfulness in the English dictionary

The definition of painfulness in the dictionary is the quality of being painful or causing pain, distress, or embarrassment.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAINFULNESS

adorableness · agreeableness · apocryphalness · colorfulness · comfortableness · credibleness · dependableness · evilness · fashionableness · idealness · ineffectualness · masterfulness · mistrustfulness · realness · scornfulness · simpleness · specialness · stableness · stressfulness · unsuitableness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAINFULNESS

pain barrier · pain clinic · pain control · pain in the arse · pain in the neck · pain relief · Paine · pained · painful · painfully · painim · painkiller · painkilling · painless · painlessly · painlessness · pains · painstaker · painstaking · painstakingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAINFULNESS

business · carefulness · coolness · faithfulness · forgetfulness · fruitfulness · fullness · helpfulness · illness · joyfulness · meaningfulness · mental illness · mindfulness · stillness · thankfulness · thoughtfulness · truthfulness · usefulness · wastefulness · wellness · wonderfulness

Synonyms and antonyms of painfulness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «painfulness» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PAINFULNESS

Find out the translation of painfulness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of painfulness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «painfulness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

困苦
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

doloroso
570 millions of speakers
en

English

painfulness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

painfulness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الآلام
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

болезненность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

painfulness
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

painfulness
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

pénibilité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kesakitan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schmerzhaftigkeit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

painfulness
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

array(기다린다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Painfulness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

painfulness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வருத்தத்திலும்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वेदना
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

painfulness
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

dolore
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

bolesność
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

болючість
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

necazuri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οδυνηρότης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moeite
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

painfulness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

painfulness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of painfulness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAINFULNESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of painfulness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «painfulness».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about painfulness

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAINFULNESS»

Discover the use of painfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to painfulness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Feeling Pain and Being in Pain
In Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, Nikola Grahek examines two of the most radical dissociation syndromes to be found in human pain experience: pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain.
Nikola Grahek, Daniel C. Dennett, 2011
2
Craving and Salvation: A Study in Buddhist Soteriology
This seemingly arbitrary discernment eventually can be seen to contain the physical, psychological, and existential manifestations of painfulness: Painfulness, painfulness! is the saying, friend Sariputta. But what, friend, is painfulness?
Bruce Matthews, 2010
3
Philosophy of Psychology
quality of painfulness, is thus insisting on an unintelligible extra something. The first culdesac, then,is that a person's power to discriminate painful sensationsis a brute factsubject to no further questionsandanswers. The next question concerns  ...
Jose Luis Bermudez, 2007
4
Time and Ethics
Hedonists appeal to the thought that our individual well-being is a matter just of our agreeable and disagreeable mental states, and that increase of pleasurableness and decrease of painfulness are the only two sorts of benefit.14 Beyond ...
H. L. Dyke, 2003
5
Content and Consciousness
What is there about painfulness that prompts us to avoid it, withdraw our hand, attempt to eliminate it? The question is dead because there is nothing about painfulness at all; it is an unanalysable quality. We simply do abhor pain, but not in ...
Daniel C. Dennett, 2002
6
Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theory
unconstituted concrete properties of painfulness – for instance, located in our arms. Nor do ordinary concrete objects like Cuisinart blades really have painfulness on their surfaces. Nor is it at all plausible to think that there are sense data ...
Joseph Mendola, 2006
7
Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction
In such a case, that is to say, the phenomenal property of painfulness will not be exemplified at all even though the subject 'thinks' that it is. The objection is straightforward There is no difference, to the subject, between this case and the ...
William Seager, 2002
8
Production and Distribution Theories
One consists of assuming that painfulness is a linear function of productiveness of work, despite the distinction he has drawn between them.1 This method may underly his graphic approach, which he introduces by saying, "We may imagine ...
George Joseph Stigler, 1994
9
The Mind as a Scientific Object : Between Brain and Culture: ...
the painfulness of a consciously experienced pain is to be eliminated in the metaphysically correct view of the world, great discomfort ensues. Nonetheless, it looks very much as if the benign emergence of the mental is tantamount to ...
Christina E. Erneling Department of Psychology, David M. Johnson Department of Philosophy both at York University, 2004
10
Philosophical Psychopathology: Philosophy Without Thought ...
But does the terminator experience the painfulness of pain? Given that functionalism identifies mental states with functional states of the system, and given that the terminator functions in a manner consistent with pain avoidance, then it would ...
Garry Young, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAINFULNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term painfulness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Readers react to Gov. Sam Brownback, the St. Francis Xavier …
Of painfulness. Until they regress and return. To the rain-soaked earth. To await rebirth. Seventeen years from now. How is it that nature. «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
2
When love forbids sex and porn replaces one-night stands
For, while you enjoyed the sex, the painfulness of that urge, the suddenness of it, always weighed on you. You told yourself that it was nothing, ... «DailyO, Jul 15»
3
Mr. Robot: “eps1.43xpl0its.wmv”
Part of the painfulness stems from seeing Elliot's flashback immediately preceding the act, the internal resource he draws upon in order to wield ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jul 15»
4
Monday Rundown: Desperate drama
To understand the true painfulness of close, one only needed to look into the eyes of AJ Allmendinger. The road course ace drives for the ... «ESPN, Jul 15»
5
A scientist just raised 4 serious questions about the blood test that …
... they are not: in the speed of test results, the cost of blood tests, the painfulness of blood tests, and the delivery of results directly to patients. 1. «Yahoo Finance UK, Jun 15»
6
In Johnston, prayers for Charleston
“Let us, rather, use the body of Christ to face that truth in all of its scariness, and all of its painfulness, and all of its trouble.” For the closing song ... «News & Observer, Jun 15»
7
Still an Angry Christian
I was lamenting the painfulness of pain. I was soft and sweet and empathetic to the suffering of others. And the next morning, I woke up angry ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
8
How the FCC Found Its Backbone
Contrast all that — the painfulness, the drawn-out waffling, the ultimate disappointment, the soft deal-making, the speechmaking that turned out ... «Backchannel, May 15»
9
Something to Remember on Memorial Day
This is a day of extraordinary painfulness if you take the time to think about it. A soldier losing his life in battle, usually at an extremely early age ... «Washington Post, May 15»
10
Paul Krugman Loves WW II, Thinks John Maynard Keynes Is an Idiot.
We are suffering . . . . from the growing-pains of over-rapid changes, from the painfulness of readjustment between one economic period and ... «Pulse, May 15»
REFERENCE
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