painful sensation

Questions about painful sensation

What does painful sensation mean?

painful sensation means "a somatic sensation of acute discomfort".

What is another word for painful sensation?

Close synonyms include pain, pain sensation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is painful sensation a common word?

painful sensation 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for painful sensation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.