different between heartache vs affliction

heartache

English

Alternative forms

  • heart-ache

Etymology

From Middle English heorteece, heorte-ece, from Old English heorte?e, equivalent to heart +? ache.

Pronunciation

Noun

heartache (countable and uncountable, plural heartaches)

  1. Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress

Pronunciation

Translations

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affliction

English

Etymology

From Middle English affliction, affliccioun, from Old French afliction, from Latin afflictio, from affligere. See afflict.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??fl?k??n/
  • Hyphenation: af?flic?tion

Noun

affliction (countable and uncountable, plural afflictions)

  1. A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  2. Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
    • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
      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) [...]

Translations


French

Etymology

From Old French afliction, from Latin afflictio, from affligere.

Pronunciation

Noun

affliction f (plural afflictions)

  1. (countable and uncountable) affliction

Further reading

  • “affliction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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