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Suffering vs Struggling - What's the difference?

suffering | struggling |

As nouns the difference between suffering and struggling

is that suffering is the condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress while struggling is the act of one who struggles.

As verbs the difference between suffering and struggling

is that suffering is while struggling is .

As an adjective suffering

is experiencing pain(jump).

suffering

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Experiencing pain.(jump)

    • Synonyms

    * (jump) in pain

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • struggling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who struggles.
  • * 1848 , Orville Dewey, Discourses on the Nature of Religion
    • All the strugglings of genius in thee, have never equalled the strugglings of virtue in him.