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DISTRESSINGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distressingness mean? 

DISTRESSINGNESS (noun)
  The noun DISTRESSINGNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being painfulplay

  Familiarity information: DISTRESSINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISTRESSINGNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being painful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

distressingness; painfulness

Context example:

she feared the painfulness of childbirth

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)


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