afflictionless

English

Etymology

From affliction +‎ -less.

Adjective

afflictionless (comparative more afflictionless, superlative most afflictionless)

  1. Free from affliction.
    Synonym: unafflicted
    • 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 9, in Far from the Madding Crowd‎[1], volume 1, London: Smith, Elder, pages 124–125:
      […] he always had a loosened tooth or a cut finger to show to particular friends, which he did with a complacent air of being thereby elevated above the common herd of afflictionless humanity […]
    • 1996, Edna O’Brien, Down by the River,‎[2], London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 216:
      […] unearthly cries as if spirits clustered in every clod of earth, feeling and needing those cries, that expiation, as though from it[,] all would be resolved into a bright, afflictionless paradise.
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