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painlessness

  • a word derived from painless.
    painless
    adjective
    without pain; causing little or no pain.

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Last week, Americans were again reminded how profoundly this method has failed to live up to its promise of painlessness or mercy.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2022

It’s the reason she came to embody the sleek fantasies of pleasure, painlessness and profit of the 1980s.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

Avril liked it because floating in the pool was the closest she ever got to total painlessness.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2021

The principal obstacle, of course, is the controversy over midazolam, the sedative component of a drug cocktail that is supposed to put the subject into a state of unconscious painlessness at the time of death.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2017

But questions about the painlessness and efficacy of lethal injection were emerging.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson