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DISTRESSFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of arousing fear or distress
Example:
he learned the seriousness of his illness
Synonyms:
distressfulness; seriousness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("distressfulness" is a kind of...):
badness; severeness; severity (used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather)
Derivation:
distressful (causing distress or worry or anxiety)
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