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Aggravation vs Botheration - What's the difference?

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Aggravation is a related term of botheration.


As nouns the difference between aggravation and botheration

is that aggravation is the act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences while botheration is the act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

aggravation

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
  • Exaggerated representation.
  • An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

    • Synonyms

    * provocation, irritation.

    Related terms

    * aggravate

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    botheration

    English

    Noun

  • The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
  • * 1918' : '''Botheration ! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way. - , ''Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 120)