Synonyms for affliction
əˈflɪk ʃənaf·flic·tion

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1. affliction

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

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   Synonyms:
   distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. affliction

   Synonyms:
   trouble, trial, grief, pain, disease, misery, hardship, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   consolation, relief, alleviation, assuagement, more , boon, blessing, gratification, pleasure

Princeton's WordNet

1. afflictionnoun

   a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity

2. afflictionnoun

   a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health

3. afflictionnoun

   a cause of great suffering and distress

Matched Categories

1. • Adversity
   • Ill Health
   • Trouble

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1. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune

2. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart

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1. afflictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   tribulation, adversity, trouble, buffeting, bereavement, hardship, visitation, scourge, distress, misfortune

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1. List of paraphrases for "affliction":

   infirmity, scourge, sorrow, grief, bereavement, curse

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How to use affliction in a sentence?

1. Claudia Bivins:

   It still weighs me down, the flag represents racism, slavery and affliction.

2. Jamela Dunbar:

   Independence Day in America was July 4, 1776. Blood, sweat. and tears. Negros remember the oppression of their forefathers. And the condemnation of slavery. The memories are bittersweet to this day. When you look back at history. The abuse, affliction, and demeanor of our fore parents' rights, invaded. The pain is still sharp. And fresh in our memories like yesterday. And it lives on in our heart, like Cancer without a cure.

3. John Donne:

   Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

4. Keith Ablow:

   If your job is adopting a persona who is not really who are you and maintaining it for many years inside and outside the ring to some extent, one could wonder whether you are also more vulnerable to using substances to try to maintain that identity, this could be an unhealthy alliance of certain psychological factors with the fallout from physical side effects that result when you try to maintain affliction.

5. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   Evil men practice the implantation of hateful ideologies within the minds of the weak. They know it is hard to erase this mental affliction. They also know that the physicality will go away, but mental ideological damage is forever.