Painfulness
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The state or quality of being painful, of causing pain. The state or quality of being tedious, of requiring great care.
Pain
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress; sadness; grief; solicitude; disquietude.An annoying person or thing.Suffering seen as a punishment or penalty.
Example sentence: Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.