Definition of "painlessness" [painlessness]

• The quality of being painless. (noun)

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• "For painlessness, which is positive, is always to be preferred to pleasure, which is negative."
• "Some leading advocates of this method claim that the majority of the unfavorable results attendant upon "twilight sleep" are the direct result of failure to control the dosage of the drug by these "memory tests;" and they call attention to the large percentage of "painlessness" as proof of probable overdosing."
• "I writhed on the bed, shrieking and cursing, begging for death, despising the Ciara fool! of ten minutes ago, the one who had turned down eternal peace and painlessness."