Another word for affliction
affliction
n.
suffering, pain, distress, trouble, misfortune, tribulation, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, wretchedness, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, ailment, infirmity, sickness, disease, disorder, grief, woe, sorrow, care, unhappiness, heartache, cross, cross to bear, ordeal, torment, scourge, plight, difficulty, burden, curse, bane, visitation, tsoris*; see also difficulty 1, 2, pain 1, 2.
affliction implies pain, suffering, or distress imposed by illness, loss, misfortune, etc.; trial suggests suffering that tries one's endurance, but in a weaker sense refers to annoyance that tries one's patience; tribulation connotes severe affliction continuing over a long and trying period; misfortune is applied to a circumstance or event involving adverse fortune or to the suffering or distress occasioned by it
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Another word for affliction
A state of physical or mental suffering:
agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound, wretchedness. See happyThe condition of being sick:
disorder, illness, indisposition, infirmity, sickness. See healthSomething hard to bear physically or emotionally:
burden1, cross, trial, tribulation. See heavy, overA cause of suffering or harm:
bane, curse, evil, ill, plague, scourge, woe. See help
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