definition of
hardship

[1] #1 hardship n. [adversity, hard knocks] a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship". wn

[2] #2 hardship n. [asperity, grimness, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters". wn

[3] #3 hardship n. 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". wn