WordNet
n. a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; "as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain" [syn: pain]
Usage examples of "painful sensation".
I'm speaking of a precise painful sensation, not a vague and undetermined one.
A moment later, he felt a strange and almost painful sensation inside his head, which made him wrinkle his face as if he had been deafened by some high, piercing whistle.
But whatever that may be in the dying which with violently painful sensation robs of all sensation, yet, when it is piously and faithfully borne, it increases the merit of patience, but does not make the name of punishment inapplicable.
Besides the exercise of mind from this state of facts, I had the painful sensation of being about to separate from a circle of honest and warm hearted friends, in Baltimore.
Madame La Motte was also sensible of it, and it renewed a painful sensation.
It was the most painful sensation Dhamon had experienced in his life.
She flinched, tried to move away, tried to fade so that this new, painful sensation could not touch her.
I was just about to give them a last tirade of impassioned (yet clever) abuse, when I felt a familiarly painful sensation in my bowels.
When Newton recovered his senses, his swimming eyes could just enable him to perceive that something flashed upon them, and in their weak state created a painful sensation.
Again she shivered, then turned away quickly, a sweet but painful sensation filling her, physical in its intensity.
On that event they removed to Mansfield, and the parsonage there, which under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as every thing else, within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park, had long been.