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Definition of Suffering

1. Noun. A state of acute pain.

2. Adjective. Troubled by pain or loss. "Suffering refugees"

3. Noun. Misery resulting from affliction.

4. Adjective. Very unhappy; full of misery. "Wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

5. Noun. Psychological suffering. "The death of his wife caused him great distress"

6. Noun. Feelings of mental or physical pain.

Definition of Suffering

1. n. The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

2. a. Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Definition of Suffering

1. Adjective. Experiencing pain.(jump experiencing pain s) ¹

2. Noun. The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress. ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of suffer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suffering

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffering

suffer fools gladly sufferable sufferableness sufferably sufferage sufferance sufferances sufferation sufferations sufferaunce

suffered sufferer sufferers sufferest suffereth suffering (current term) suffering catfish suffering cats suffering succotash sufferingly

sufferings suffers suffete suffetes suffice suffice it to say suffice to say sufficed sufficer sufficers

Literary usage of Suffering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1886)
"Again, is suffering injustice always one way or I the other (as doing injustice is always voluntary), or is it sometimes voluntary and sometimes involuntary ..."

2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"Again, is suffering injustice always one way or the other (as doing injustice is always voluntary), or is it sometimes voluntary and sometimes involuntary? ..."

3. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1872)
"suffering of the body and mind: weeping.—I have already described in sufficient detail, ... No suffering is greater than that from extreme fear or horror, ..."

4. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"suffering of the body and mind : weeping.—I have already described in sufficient detail, ... No suffering is greater than that from extreme fear or horror, ..."

5. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"If the highly-appreciative feeling towards Art and its professors, which it is the consolation and happiness of Mr. Fairlie's suffering existence to ..."

6. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1886)
"General effect of grief on the system — Obliquity of the eyebrows under suffering — On the cause of the obliquity of the eyebrows ..."

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