Meaning
- Affliction is a noun that refers to something that causes pain, suffering, or distress, whether physical, emotional, or social.
- It can describe both the condition of suffering and the cause itself.
Grammar and Usage
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Part of speech: Noun
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Common structures:
- “suffer from an affliction” (be affected by a painful condition)
- “an affliction of + body part/mind”
- “cause of affliction”
Common Phrases
- Suffer from an affliction – to endure a painful condition.
- Chronic affliction – long-term suffering.
- Mental affliction – emotional or psychological pain.
- Source of affliction – cause of suffering.
Collocations
- Adjectives + affliction: great affliction, painful affliction, chronic affliction, serious affliction
- Verbs + affliction: endure affliction, suffer affliction, relieve affliction, cause affliction
Examples
- He has suffered from a rare affliction since childhood.
- Poverty can be a serious affliction for many families.
- The disease is one of the most common afflictions in the region.
- Despite her affliction, she remained optimistic and kind.
- Loneliness is often described as a modern affliction.
- The medicine helped relieve his affliction.
- They supported her through the affliction of losing a loved one.
- War brought affliction to countless innocent people.
Synonyms or Related
- Suffering
- Hardship
- Misery
- Distress
- Pain
- Illness
- Trouble