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Botheration vs Affliction - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between botheration and affliction

is that botheration is the act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation while affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

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)

    • 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) [...]