aflicción

Definitions of aflicción
  1. noun
    something that causes great unhappiness
    synonyms: agonía, congoja, cuita, desconsuelo, disgusto, dolor, duelo, escozor, espina, luto, pena, pesadumbre, pesar, quebranto, sentimiento
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    type of:
    estímulo negativo
    a stimulus with undesirable consequences
  2. noun
    emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
    synonyms: dolor, pesadumbre, pesar
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    antonyms:
    goce, placer
    a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
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    mal, martirio, suplicio, torcedor, tormento, tortura
    feelings of mental or physical pain
    sufrimiento
    psychological suffering
    agonía
    violent pangs of suffering
    incomodidad, molestia
    an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
    agonía, martirio, suplicio, torcedor, tormento, tortura
    extreme mental distress
    type of:
    sentimiento
    the experiencing of affective and emotional states
  3. noun
    intense mournfulness
    synonyms: desgracia, dolor, mal
  4. noun
    misery resulting from affliction
    synonyms: mal
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    type of:
    abyección, desdicha, desgracia, indecencia, laceria, mezquindad, miseria, sufrimiento
    a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
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