hardship

noun

1. 1

   something hard to endure

   the asperity of northern winters

2. 2

   something that causes or entails suffering

   I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell

   the many hardships of frontier life

3. 3

   a state of misfortune or affliction

   debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity

   a life of hardship