different between heaviness vs affliction

English

Etymology

From Middle English hevinesse, from Old English hefi?nes (“heaviness”). Equivalent to heavy +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?v?n?s/

Noun

heaviness (countable and uncountable, plural heavinesses)

1. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
2. (archaic) Oppression; dejectedness, sadness; low spirits.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     First got with guile, and then preseru'd with dread, / And after spent with pride and lauishnesse, / Leauing behind them griefe and heauinesse.
3. (obsolete) Drowsiness.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     Miranda: The strangeness of your story put / Heaviness in me.

Translations

Anagrams

• evanishes

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).