painlike

comparative more painlike · superlative most painlike

1. Resembling pain.

   As the duration lengthens beyond 80 msec, the painlike quality of the sensation decreases.

   1981, Raimond Emmers, Pain — a spike-interval coded message in the brain

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   But if the sexual urge is continually frustrated, the whole business becomes more truly painlike, and few would choose that condition over indifference.

   1993, Neal O Weiner, The harmony of the soul: mental health and moral virtue reconsidered