affliction
noun
[ əˈflɪkʃ(ə)n ]
• a cause of pain or harm.
• "a crippling affliction of the nervous system"
Similar:
disorder,
disease,
malady,
complaint,
ailment,
illness,
indisposition,
scourge,
plague,
trouble,
menace,
evil,
visitation,
Origin:
Middle English (originally in the sense ‘infliction of pain or humiliation’, specifically ‘religious self-mortification’): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n- ), from the verb affligere (see afflict).
