affliction
Example Sentences
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The inability to comprehend the significance of big numbers is a human affliction.
From Los Angeles Times
“I think of the need to make things as a kind of affliction,” she says.
From Salon
It’s the affliction of overthinking: If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, wait, hold on, it must be a chandelier.
I fear we are turning out the most confused generation, with an affliction of contradiction.
Meanwell did what he does best—find the next big thing in medicine by looking for the biggest afflictions facing the most patients.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
