Painience (cf. Pleasure)

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(includes both PAIN and SUFFERING)

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1. The superordinate category encompassing all aversive human experience, whether functionally adaptive or arising from resistance to reality.

2. The full spectrum of negative valence experience, inclusive of both its necessary and unnecessary forms.

3. Any felt experience whose quality signals the presence of something unwanted, whether that signal serves a useful purpose or not.

4. The genus of which pain and suffering are the two exhaustive and mutually exclusive species.

5. All experience characterized by aversion, regardless of whether its source is reality itself or one's resistance to reality.

6. The domain of human experience standing in contrast to pleasure, encompassing both its adaptive and maladaptive expressions.

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See Pleasure And Panience: The Distinctions