|1.||[ noun ] something hard to endure|
|Synonyms:||rigor grimness rigour severity rigorousness asperity|
"the asperity of northern winters"
|2.||[ noun ] a state of misfortune or affliction|
: "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity" "a life of hardship"
|Related terms:||misfortune trouble catastrophe nadir victimization extremity affliction ill-being|
|3.||[ noun ] something that causes or entails suffering|
: "I cannot thinking it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell "the many hardships of frontier life"