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 plot is straightforward and predictable to the point of painfulness.
- she feared the painfulness of childbirth
- Yes, the first half of the week I was pretty terrified, and gripped the wheel almost to the point of painfulness; and I still get terribly lost, and frustrated when I do though increasingly less so; and I stress about people behind me, and irritating them, and getting honked at. Archive 2009-05-01
- This kind of headache is generally only suffered by men, is typically suffered intensely over a period of weeks with a long period of remission in between, is extremely rare, and is off the Richter scale of painfulness. Happy? New Year
- From Variety.com: "I would not be able to get through life had I not been able to view its painfulness in a comedic way," he once told a reporter. Blake Edwards dead at 88
- Having lived alone for periods at one time, I can vouch for its painfulness; and also the opportunity for self-examination.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Having previously described the painfulness of chest tube removal, my colleagues and I decided to intervene.