noun
- A state of misfortune or affliction.
- usage: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
- synonyms: adversity, hard knocks
- Something hard to endure.
- usage: "the asperity of northern winters"
- synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness
- Something that causes or entails suffering.
- usage: "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"
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