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painfulness

Today it means: The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain. Full definition →

Middle English peynfulnes

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Middle English · inherited frompeynfulnes
English todaypainfulness

From Middle English peynfulnes, peynfulnesse, equivalent to painful + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.