Inconvenience vs Pestilence - What's the difference?
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The quality of being inconvenient.
* Hooker
Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
* Tillotson
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to bother; to discomfort
Any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
Inconvenience is a related term of pestilence.
As a noun inconvenience
is the quality of being inconvenient.As a verb inconvenience
is to bother; to discomfort.As a proper noun pestilence is
the personification of pestilence, often depicted riding a white horse.inconvenience
English
Noun
- They plead against the inconvenience , not the unlawfulness, of ceremonies in burial.
- Man is liable to a great many inconveniences .
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Synonyms
* (something inconvenient) annoyance, nuisanceVerb
(inconvenienc)Synonyms
* (obsolete) discommodateExternal links
* *pestilence
English
Noun
(en noun)- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when they seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.