hardship

nouns

a state of misfortune or affliction
"debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"
adversity, hard knocks, hardship
something hard to endure
"the asperity of northern winters"
asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity
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"
hardship
is a type of (narrower)
unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event
bad luck, misfortune