Affliction
Illness
Illness noun - The condition of not being in good health.
Usage example: prone to illness as a child, he was sent to a western ranch with the expectation that it would toughen him up
Affliction is a synonym for illness in sickness topic. You can use "Affliction" instead a noun "Illness", if it concerns topics such as ailment, disease, health. popular alternative
Nearby Word: ill
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- malady and affliction
- malady and illness
- disorder and affliction
- disorder and illness
- ailment and affliction
- ailment and illness
- complaint and affliction
- complaint and illness
- disease and affliction
- disease and illness
- indisposition and affliction
- indisposition and illness
- sickness and affliction
- sickness and illness
How words are described
| human | human affliction | human illness |
| physical | physical affliction | physical illness |
| rare | rare affliction | rare illness |
| similar | similar affliction | similar illness |
| Other adjectives: common, nasty, actual, severe, dangerous, terrible, horrible, tragic, permanent, mental, minor, temporary, mysterious, incurable, unknown, strange, bizarre, magical, crippling, debilitating, genetic, neurological, degenerative. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Perhaps the weirdest, and arguably most realistic, example is Ode to Kirihito, which revolves around the mysterious illness known as Monmow Disease, an affliction that gradually turns people into canine-like mutants until the trauma the transformation causes to their organs kills them.
Source: Our Werewolves Are Different - The interesting premise is fleshed out with consistently good dialogue and writing, and demonstrates a thorough understanding of the real illness which Twilight's fantastical/magical-pony affliction is based upon.
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Illness and Affliction. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/affliction/illness
Affliction & Illness. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/affliction/illness>.
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