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painlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From pain + -like.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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