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.

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

Suffering: this stems from attachment and holding wrong points of view. Did not Buddha say in his Four Noble Truths, “All suffering comes from attachment and all suffering comes from holding wrong points of view”? Even physical health suffering is illusion. Physical pain is a reality but it is only suffering if your consciousness identifies with it. Did not Krishna say, “Keep evenmindedness whether you have profit or loss, pleasure or pain, sickness or health, victory or defeat, criticism or praise. In all things remain the same

misery resulting from affliction

very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

The prevention from and alleviation of personal suffering by a patient is the physician's ultimate duty and the principal purpose of the professional practice of medicine. The suffering can be physical or mental. The ethical values of beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and equity, for many thoughtful physicians, become subordinate to the duty of making the patient better. For the infertile couple, prevention from or relief of suffering most obviously means the physician helping them to have a baby; this is not always possible, however, in which case other medical and personal strategies need to be explored if the suffering is to be lessened.

Tactile strategies

another key element to the Medieval concept of love, brought on by longing and desire. The one who loves always suffers when separated from the beloved, whether in courtly or divine love.

See dukkha.

The confused state of being caused by the karmic force of one's actions. Also, one of the three marks of existence.