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Affliction vs Detraction - What's the difference?

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Affliction is a related term of detraction.


As nouns the difference between affliction and detraction

is that affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.

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) [...]

    • detraction

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia detraction)
  • The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
  • A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world
  • (Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

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