Difficulty and Suffering

Difficulty

Difficulty noun - Something that is a cause for suffering or special effort especially in the attainment of a goal.

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Suffering and difficulty are semantically related In some cases you can use "Suffering" instead a noun "Difficulty".

Nearby Word: difficult

Suffering noun - Feelings of mental or physical pain.

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Difficulty and suffering are semantically related in pain topic. Sometimes you can use "Difficulty" instead a noun "Suffering".

Nearby Words: suffer, sufferance, suffered, sufferer

original	original difficulty	original suffering
considerable	considerable difficulty	considerable suffering
actual	actual difficulty	actual suffering
real	real difficulty	real suffering
Other adjectives: severe, massive, extreme, great, intense, serious, little, inherent, new, incredible, less, immense, greater, maximum.

Subverted in Dragon Age II, in which the absurdly promiscious Isabela apparantly gets STDs often, but she knows a long-suffering mage called Anders who can get rid of them with no real difficulty.

Source: STD Immunity
After suffering through the ridiculous difficulty of The Chosen: Well of Souls, Ross discovers that the European version of the game, Frater, is inexplicably much easier.

Source: Web Video / Ross's Game Dungeon
Writer's Block: The movie is about a writer suffering from writer's block, written while the Coens themselves were having difficulty with Miller's Crossing.

Source: Film / Barton Fink

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