NOUN
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the quality of being painful
she feared the painfulness of childbirth -
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
the pain of loneliness
How To Use painfulness In A Sentence
- The day will come when all the painfulness of this life will be resolved and healed and those who make it to heaven will enjoy the subsequent peace eternally. Feminist outrage & the banality of abortion (UPDATED)
- But one name haunts Mahound, leaps around him, young, sharp, pointing a long painted finger, singing verses whose cruel brilliance ensures their painfulness. The Satanic Verses
- Little has been reported on the painfulness of the removal of (non-chest tube) wound drains.
- Having lived alone for periods at one time, I can vouch for its painfulness; and also the opportunity for self-examination.
- There is a sense that what we are watching, for all its painfulness, has less to do with self-examination than self-advertisement.
- He conveys the painfulness of life without condemning life.
- Having previously described the painfulness of chest tube removal, my colleagues and I decided to intervene.
- Dr. Duncan further explains that the regular insertion of a feeding tube damages the birds 'esophagi, which exacerbates the painfulness of each force feeding, and that "[t] he birds' obesity will lead to myriad other problems from skeletal disorders to difficulties in coping with heat stress, and all of which are accompanied by feelings of malaise. Bruce Friedrich: Scientific Evidence Proves: Foie Gras is Foul
- Last summer, when I was asked to join a "Kalachakra" -- a circle-of-life pilgrimage, this one actually where Prince Siddhartha discovered the realities of the world under the Bodhi Tree and abdicated his throne to try to show people a way to deal with life's painfulness, disease and death among them -- I jumped at the chance. Jim Luce: Following The Footsteps Of The Buddha Across North East India
- Section Two analyzes the theme choice of his poetry from three directions of emotional sigh, the painfulness of losing family and homeland as well as the feeling of reclusion.