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painlessness

painlessness

4.2
The state of having no physical or emotional pain
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪnləsnəs/
translation icon : ausencia de dolor
  • After treatment, she found a sense of painlessness that she had not known for years.

Examples

  • "Pain and painlessness."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • A distinguishing feature of chronic external otitis is its painlessness.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The main aims of therapy for the HZV outbreak are to prevent complications, such as PHN, and to achieve painlessness.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Skin is one of the utmost factors for tightness and painlessness, which hair achieves with tap water so that it becomes wet.

    Blog text (2)

  • The patient experienced complete painlessness after the successful surgery.

  • The new medication aims to provide painlessness during recovery from the injury.

Synonyms

relief
vspainlessness
440 1.0

A feeling of comfort when pain or worry goes away

is a steady state of being without any pain rather than a change
comfort
vspainlessness
190 1.0

A feeling of physical ease and being free from pain

focuses on being pain free specifically rather than general ease or relaxation
analgesia
vspainlessness
  • Specialized
2 7.5

No feeling of pain while staying awake, often after medicine

describes general absence of pain, not limited to medical induction
impassibility
vspainlessness
  • Specialized
9.9

Not able to feel pain, often said of a god

refers to an actual state of feeling no pain, not an inherent incapacity

Antonyms

discomfort
119 3.2

A feeling of physical pain or mental unease

painfulness
1 3.4

A state that causes physical or emotional hurt

How Painful

agony
135 3.9
pain
∞ 1.0
discomfort
119 3.2
painlessness
4.2
comfort
190 1.0

Surface Forms

painlessness singular
painlessnesses plural

Morphology

painlessness = painless (transparent) = pain + less + ness

Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ness' to the clearly derived adjective 'painless', producing the state or quality of being without pain.

Etymology

The word painlessness comes from pain plus the parts -less meaning 'without' and -ness meaning 'state'. So painlessness is the 'state' of being without pain, either in the body or in your feelings.