physical affliction

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• affliction — I noun adversity, agony, bereavement, burden, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, curse, destruction, deterioration, disability, disease, disorder, encumbrance, evil, hardship, illness, indisposition, infirmity, misadventure, mischance, misfortune,… …   Law dictionary

• Affliction — An affliction is something which causes someone physical, mental, or emotional suffering.Affliction is a title of several works of fiction:Films * Affliction (1997 film), a 1997 film based on the 1989 novel by Russell Banks.Television *… …   Wikipedia

• affliction — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. suffering, pain, distress, trouble, misfortune, tribulation, trial, hardship, adversity, misery, wretchedness, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, ailment, infirmity, sickness, disease, disorder, grief, woe, sorrow, care,… …   English dictionary for students

• affliction — [[t]əflɪ̱kʃ(ə)n[/t]] afflictions N VAR An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering. [FORMAL] Hay fever is an affliction which arrives at an early age. ...the afflictions of modern society. Syn: misfortune …   English dictionary

• affliction — n. 1 physical or mental distress, esp. pain or illness. 2 a cause of this. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L afflictio onis (as AFFLICT) …   Useful english dictionary

• belle indifférence — See la b.. * * * a symptom of conversion disorder in which an apparently grave physical affliction (which has no physical cause) is accepted in a smiling and calm fashion …   Medical dictionary

• belle indifference — a symptom of conversion disorder in which an apparently grave physical affliction (which has no physical cause) is accepted in a smiling and calm fashion …   The new mediacal dictionary

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