feeling vs painfulness

painfulness vs feeling

feeling and painfulness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
feeling	Yes	No	No	No
painfulness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, painfulness is a hyponym of feeling; that is, painfulness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than feeling:

feeling: the experiencing of affective and emotional states
painfulness: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

Other hyponyms of feeling include affect, emotion, thing, glow, faintness, soul, soulfulness, passion, passionateness, sentiment, complex, ambivalence, ambivalency, apathy, desire, sex, sexual urge, pleasance, pleasure, pain, pang, stab, twinge, liking, dislike, gratitude, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unconcern, shame, pride, pridefulness, humbleness, humility, amazement, astonishment, devastation, expectation, levity, gravity, solemnity, sensitiveness, sensitivity, agitation, calmness, bravery, fearlessness, happiness, sadness, unhappiness, hope, despair, affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, humor, humour, mood, temper, fellow feeling, sympathy, enthusiasm, anchorage, disinterest.

feeling (noun)	painfulness (noun)
the experiencing of affective and emotional states	the quality of being painful
an intuitive understanding of something	emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
a physical sensation that you experience
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Difference between feeling and painfulness

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