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DISTRESSFULNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distressfulness mean?
• DISTRESSFULNESS (noun)
The noun DISTRESSFULNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of arousing fear or distress
Familiarity information: DISTRESSFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of arousing fear or distress
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
distressfulness; seriousness
Context example:
he learned the seriousness of his illness
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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