unpleasantness vs pain
pain vs unpleasantnessunpleasantness and pain both are nouns.
unpleasantness is not a verb while pain is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unpleasantness | Yes | No | No | No |
| pain | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
pain is a hypernym of
unpleasantness; that is, pain is a
word with a broader meaning than unpleasantness:
- unpleasantness: the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
- pain: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
Other hypernyms of unpleasantness include
painfulness.
| unpleasantness (noun) | pain (noun) |
|---|---|
| the quality of giving displeasure | a somatic sensation of acute discomfort |
| the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling | something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness |
| emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid | |
| a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder |
| unpleasantness (verb) | pain (verb) |
|---|---|
| cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | |
| cause emotional anguish or make miserable |
Words related to "unpleasantness"
Words related to "pain"
- ache
- aching
- agonise
- agonize
- agony
- ail
- anguish
- annoyance
- arthralgia
- bother
- botheration
- break out
- break someone's heart
- burn
- burning
- causalgia
- chest pain
- chiralgia
- colic
- costalgia
- discomfit
- discompose
- disconcert
- distress
- dysmenorrhea
- erupt
- excruciate
- excruciation
- feeling
- glossalgia
- glossodynia
- gripes
- griping
- growing pains
- hurt
- hurting
- infliction
- intestinal colic
- irritant
- keratalgia
- labor pain
- mastalgia
- melagra
- mental anguish
- meralgia
- metralgia
- mittelschmerz
- myalgia
- myodynia
- negative stimulus
- nephralgia
- neuralgia
- neuralgy
- nuisance
- odynophagia
- orchidalgia
- pain in the ass
- pain in the neck
- pain sensation
- painful sensation
- painfulness
- pang
- phantom limb pain
- photalgia
- photophobia
- plague
- pleasure
- pleuralgia
- pleurodynia
- podalgia
- proctalgia
- rack
- rawness
- recrudesce
- referred pain
- renal colic
- smart
- smarting
- smartness
- somaesthesia
- somatesthesia
- somatic sensation
- somesthesia
- soreness
- sting
- stinging
- stitch
- suffer
- suffering
- symptom
- tenderness
- thermalgesia
- thorn
- throb
- torment
- torture
- trouble
- try
- twinge
- ulalgia
- unpleasantness
- untune
- upset
- urodynia
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