affliction

Synonyms

anguish, dolefulness, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, sorrow, woe;

Antonyms

bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, delight, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, pleasure, rapture, rapturousness;

Near Antonyms

gaiety (also gayety), humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness;

hopefulness, optimism, sunniness;

enjoyment;

content, contentedness, contentment;

Related Words

agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment;

blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness;

contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame;

melancholia, self-pity;