Synonyms of the word

hardship

• n. Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.

adversity

• n. (uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
• n. (countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.

asperity

• n. Roughness as of stone or weather.
• n. Harshness, as of temper.
• n. Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
• n. (geology) A part of a geological fault line that does not move.

difficultness

• n. The state or quality of being difficult.

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

grimness

• n. The characteristic or quality of being grim.

misfortune

• n. (uncountable) bad luck.
• n. (countable) an undesirable event such as an accident.

rigor

• n. US spelling of rigour.
• n. (slang) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.

rigorousness

• n. The property of being rigorous, strictness.

rigour

• n. Severity or strictness.
• n. A trembling or shivering response.
• n. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
• n. Shrewd questioning.
• n. Higher level of difficulty.
• n. (Britain, slang) Misspelling of rigor. An abbreviated form of rigour mortis.

rigourousness

• n. Nonstandard spelling of rigorousness.

severeness

• n. The property of being severe.

severity

• n. The state of being severe.
• n. The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.