DISTRESSINGNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being painful

Example:

she feared the painfulness of childbirth

Synonyms:

distressingness; painfulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("distressingness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "distressingness"):

sharpness (the quality of being keenly and painfully felt)