Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun painful_sensation
1 sense of painful sensation
Sense 1
pain, pain sensation, painful sensation -- (a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain")
=> somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation -- (the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes")