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n. Extreme privation; suffering.

n. A cause of privation or suffering. See Synonyms at difficulty.

n. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

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

n. Severe labor or want; suffering or excessive toil, physical or mental; adversity; affliction; also, anything that exacts physical or mental endurance.

n. Hard treatment; injury; oppression; injustice.

n. Synonyms Trial, burden, grievance, trouble.

n. a state of misfortune or affliction

n. something that causes or entails suffering

n. something hard to endure

"I have read quite a few of good craft books, but the main hardship is to put those things in practice day after day, especially because sometimes, it is quite difficult to DO those things, even though one understand the theory."

misfortune    bad luck   

privation    suffering    calamity    misery    peril    discomfort    inconvenience    humiliation    toil    loneliness