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Affliction vs Disturbance - What's the difference?

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Affliction is a related term of disturbance.


As nouns the difference between affliction and disturbance

is that affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony while disturbance is the act of disturbing, being disturbed.

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) [...]
  • disturbance

    Alternative forms

    * disturbaunce

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
  • Something that disturbs.
  • That guy causes a lot of trouble, you know, he's such a disturbance .
  • An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}
  • (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.
  • Antonyms

    * calmness