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Affliction vs Cataclysm - What's the difference?

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Affliction is a related term of cataclysm.


As nouns the difference between affliction and cataclysm

is that affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony while cataclysm is a sudden, violent event.

affliction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  • Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction , but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]

    • cataclysm

    English

    (wikipedia cataclysm)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden, violent event.
  • (geology) A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
  • A great flood.

    • Derived terms

    * cataclysmic

    Related terms

    * catastrophe