painfulness vs suffering
suffering vs painfulnesspainfulness and suffering both are nouns.
painfulness is not an adjective while suffering is an adjective.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| painfulness | Yes | No | No | No |
| suffering | Yes | Yes | No | No |
As nouns,
suffering is a hyponym of
painfulness; that is, suffering is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
painfulness:
- painfulness: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- suffering: feelings of mental or physical pain
Other hyponyms of painfulness include
growing pains, unpleasantness, mental anguish, hurt, distress, hurt.
| painfulness (noun) | suffering (noun) |
|---|---|
| the quality of being painful | feelings of mental or physical pain |
| emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | psychological suffering |
| a state of acute pain | |
| misery resulting from affliction |
| painfulness (adjective) | suffering (adjective) |
|---|---|
| troubled by pain or loss | |
| very unhappy; full of misery |
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