hurt vs painfulness

hurt and painfulness both are nouns.

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

As nouns, painfulness is a hypernym of hurt; that is, painfulness is a word with a broader meaning than hurt:

hurt: feelings of mental or physical pain
painfulness: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

Other hypernyms of hurt include pain.

As nouns, painfulness is a hypernym of hurt; that is, painfulness is a word with a broader meaning than hurt:

hurt: psychological suffering
painfulness: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid

Other hypernyms of hurt include pain.

hurt (noun)	painfulness (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	the quality of being painful
a damage or loss	emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
feelings of mental or physical pain
psychological suffering
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

hurt (adjective)	painfulness (adjective)
damaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle

hurt (verb)	painfulness (verb)
give trouble or pain to
be in pain
cause damage or affect negatively
hurt the feelings of
cause emotional anguish or make miserable
be the source of pain
feel physical pain