Hypertext Webster Gateway: "painfulness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Painful \Pain"ful\, a.
1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
--Addison.

2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with
laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. [Obs.] --Fuller.

A very painful person, and a great clerk. --Jer.
Taylor.

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. --Dryden.

Syn: Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. --
{Pain"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pain"ful*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

painfulness
n : emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to
avoid; "the pain of loneliness" [syn: {pain}] [ant: {pleasure}]

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