Suffering vs. Passionary

Sufferingadjective

Experiencing pain.s

Passionarynoun

A book in which the sufferings of saints and martyrs are described

Sufferingnoun

The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

Passionarynoun

A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.

Sufferingverb

present participle of suffer

Sufferingnoun

The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

Sufferingadjective

Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Sufferingnoun

a state of acute pain

Sufferingnoun

misery resulting from affliction

Sufferingnoun

psychological suffering;

‘the death of his wife caused him great distress’;

Sufferingnoun

feelings of mental or physical pain

Sufferingadjective

troubled by pain or loss;

‘suffering refugees’;

Sufferingadjective

very unhappy; full of misery;

‘he felt depressed and miserable’; ‘a message of hope for suffering humanity’; ‘wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages’;

Sufferingnoun

the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship

‘weapons that cause unnecessary suffering’; ‘his disregard for the sufferings of his fellow countrymen’;

Suffering

Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.