hardship (
http://definr.com/hardship)
n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction: "debt-ridden farmers
struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn:
adversity]
2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn:
asperity,
grimness,
rigor,
rigour,
severity,
rigorousness]
3: something that causes or entails suffering: "I cannot
thinking it a hardship that more more indulgence is
allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many
hardships of frontier life"