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Paintlike vs Painlike - What's the difference?

paintlike | painlike |

As adjectives the difference between paintlike and painlike

is that paintlike is resembling or characteristic of paint while painlike is resembling pain.

paintlike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of paint.

    • painlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling pain.
  • * 1981 , Raimond Emmers, Pain — a spike-interval coded message in the brain
    • As the duration lengthens beyond 80 msec, the painlike quality of the sensation decreases.
  • * 1993 , Neal O Weiner, The harmony of the soul: mental health and moral virtue reconsidered
    • But if the sexual urge is continually frustrated, the whole business becomes more truly painlike , and few would choose that condition over indifference.