pain threshold

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   the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced

   “some people have much higher pain thresholds than do other people”

   Broaderabsolute threshold

Questions about pain threshold

What does pain threshold mean?

pain threshold means "the lowest intensity of stimulation at which pain is experienced".

Is pain threshold a common word?

pain threshold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.