painfulness vs growing pains

painfulness and growing pains both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
painfulness	Yes	No	No	No
growing pains	Yes	No	No	No

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

painfulness: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
growing pains: emotional distress arising during adolescence

Other hyponyms of painfulness include unpleasantness, mental anguish, hurt, suffering, distress, hurt, suffering.

painfulness (noun)	growing pains (noun)
the quality of being painful	problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid	emotional distress arising during adolescence
	pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth

painfulness vs growing pains

painfulness and growing pains both are nouns.

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