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Affliction vs Contamination - What's the difference?

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Affliction is a related term of contamination.


As nouns the difference between affliction and contamination

is that affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony while contamination is the act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

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) [...]

    • contamination

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
  • (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
  • (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
  • The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.