Hardship vs. Tribulation

Hardshipnoun

Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

‘He has survived periods of financial hardship before.’;

Tribulationnoun

Any adversity; a trying period or event.

Hardshipverb

(transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

Tribulationnoun

That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.

‘When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.’; ‘In the world ye shall have tribulation.’;

Hardshipnoun

That which is hard to bear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.

Tribulationnoun

an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event;

‘his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him’; ‘life is full of tribulations’; ‘a visitation of the plague’;

Hardshipnoun

a state of misfortune or affliction;

‘debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity’; ‘a life of hardship’;

Hardshipnoun

something hard to endure;

‘the asperity of northern winters’;

Hardshipnoun

something that causes or entails suffering;

‘I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women’; ‘the many hardships of frontier life’;