Hardship
WordNet
noun
(1) Something hard to endure
"The asperity of northern winters"
(2) Something that causes or entails suffering
"I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell
"The many hardships of frontier life"
(3) A state of misfortune or affliction
"Debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"
"A life of hardship"
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