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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

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

From The Guardian Mar. 9, 2021

But the genetic mutation that seems to be responsible for Ms. Cameron’s virtual painlessness had not been previously identified.

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2019

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