painfulness

Other forms of painfulness

plural

painfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about painfulness

What does painfulness mean?

painfulness means "emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in painfulness?

painfulness has 3 syllables: pain-ful-ness. The stress falls on "pain".

What is another word for painfulness?

Close synonyms include pain, distressingness. 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 painfulness a common word?

painfulness 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.