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Infirmity vs Affliction - What's the difference?

infirmity | affliction |

As nouns the difference between infirmity and affliction

is that infirmity is feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age while affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.

infirmity

English

Noun

(infirmities)
  • feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
  • a moral weakness or defect

    • Related terms

    * infirm

    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) [...]