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DISTRESSINGNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being painful
Example:
she feared the painfulness of childbirth
Synonyms:
distressingness; painfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("distressingness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distressingness"):
sharpness (the quality of being keenly and painfully felt)
