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DISTRESSINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distressingness mean?
• DISTRESSINGNESS (noun)
The noun DISTRESSINGNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being painful
Familiarity information: DISTRESSINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being painful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
distressingness; painfulness
Context example:
she feared the painfulness of childbirth
Hypernyms ("distressingness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distressingness"):
sharpness (the quality of being keenly and painfully felt)
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