infliction
/ɪnˈflɪkʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of inflicting something unpleasant or painful on someone or something: the repeated infliction of pain...
- Perhaps, for instance, it's proper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of liberty but categorically improper to derive satisfaction from deprivation of life or infliction of physical pain.
- It specifies that torture includes only intentional infliction of ‘severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental.’
- Georgia, coined the phrase ‘unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.’
Synonyms
inflicting, administering, administration, dealing out, meting out, serving out, delivering, application, applying;
exaction, imposition, wreaking, perpetration
1.1 [count noun] informal, dated A nuisance: what an infliction he must be!...
- He, too, bore several inflictions, but if they bothered him it did not show.
- Quite what the South Africans have done to warrant this infliction I'd better not speculate on.
- If readers thought that was a nefarious scheme, I apologize for any infliction it may have caused.
