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How many syllables in Affliction?

affliction has 3 syllables

af-flic-tion

Affliction means something that causes pain or suffering.

The word has three syllables. The vowels are 'a', 'i', and 'o'. The consonants are 'f', 'l', 'c', and 't'.

Noun

The flu was an affliction that made me feel terrible.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
The wounds of the tongue are more painful than those of the body.
The afflictions of life are like a pane of glass. Scratch it with your fingernail and it will mar it, but breathe on it and the frost and clouds disappear.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
The greatest affliction of the heart is a hardened heart.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude take root and strongly flourish.
Affliction is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
Affliction is the good man's shining time.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.