Get to know Affliction better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like adversity or hardship.
Affliction meaning
- A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Synonyms of Affliction
Using Affliction
- The main meaning on this page is: A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony. | Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- Useful related words include: adversity, hardship, hard knocks, ill health.
- In the example corpus, affliction often appears in combinations such as: the affliction, of affliction, affliction that.
Context around Affliction
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Affliction
- In this selection, "affliction" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, claudius, common, communicable, comes, recommended and next stand out and add context to how "affliction" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a common affliction and afflicted but affliction to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "affliction" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with affliction
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Natural disasters are an affliction that has already befallen us. (10 words)
It’s the second most communicable affliction next to the cold in children. (13 words)
Hoffmann's PGA Tour career is on hold as he continues to fight his affliction. (15 words)
The couple said they overheard the owner telling another passenger that the stocky pup eased her anxiety, however, they insisted that the dog appeared to be distressed and struggling with the affliction on his own. (35 words)
A rat apparently with the same eye affliction as O. Ratz Rat in a Hot Tin Can tells the tale of a city rat struggling to keep warm in the dead of winter. (33 words)
In fact, he tells Alex that he has come to buy a book, “Furnace of Affliction” recommended by the preacher( Alex) who is now in a state of dilemma. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Claudius' affliction and personality Claudius depicted as the Roman god Jupiter The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius' affliction in relatively good detail.
All the buildings were abandoned and the entire camp was moved a kilometre away from the site of the affliction.
Because chlorination had not yet been introduced and water filtration was rare, typhoid fever, spread by contaminated water, was a common affliction.
Groupthink is the affliction of those who ought to be — and often think of themselves as — the least vulnerable to it.
He goes as far as kidnapping other people infected by Joker's affliction, comes up with secret protocols, and makes a cell purely to contain himself.
In fact, he tells Alex that he has come to buy a book, “Furnace of Affliction” recommended by the preacher( Alex) who is now in a state of dilemma.
It’s the second most communicable affliction next to the cold in children.
Natural disasters are an affliction that has already befallen us.
The couple said they overheard the owner telling another passenger that the stocky pup eased her anxiety, however, they insisted that the dog appeared to be distressed and struggling with the affliction on his own.
The ) notes that the land of Edom is significant because it is the source of judgment and affliction.
Throughout the story we follow Elspeth as she cowers behind closed doors, doing her best to hide the powerful affliction many have been killed for.
And he has still not received any treatment for his affliction due to the delays caused by the miscommunication.
By age 8 he was stuttering so badly, and was so mortified by his affliction, that he stopped talking altogether, terrified that only gibberish would come out.
Even from a distance, they wondered at how much he knew, how – at a stretch of his hands – all manner of affliction will simply disappear from a diseased body.
It was in this abysmal situation that Ezekiel spoke God’s word of comfort to the afflicted but affliction to the comfortable.
Scripture confirms these truths: “For our momentary light affliction,” the apostle Paul writes, “is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor 4:17).
The contrast between last Shabbat's Haftorah of affliction and this Shabbat's Haftorah of comfort couldn't be greater.
According to current progressive politics, old, white and male stands not so much as a classification as an affliction.
A rat apparently with the same eye affliction as O. Ratz Rat in a Hot Tin Can tells the tale of a city rat struggling to keep warm in the dead of winter.
Hoffmann's PGA Tour career is on hold as he continues to fight his affliction.
Common combinations with affliction
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the affliction 9×
- of affliction 6×
- affliction that 6×
- affliction of 5×
- affliction and 4×
- his affliction 4×
- affliction in 3×
- common affliction 3×
- an affliction 3×
- worst affliction 3×