All affliction synonyms

noun affliction

• illness — unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• sickness — a particular disease or malady.
• scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
• disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
• misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
• woe — grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
• infirmity — a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
• crux — The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
• misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• ordeal — any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
• plight — Archaic. pledge.
• adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• problem — any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.