From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Harassment \Har"ass*ment\ (-ment), noun The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. --Ld. Lytton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: {torment}]
2: the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism [syn: {molestation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "harassment": McCarthyism, aggravation, annoyance, annoyingness, bad news, bedevilment, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, crashing bore, devilment, difficulty, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, exasperation, fretting, harrying, headache, hounding, irking, irksomeness, irritation, molestation, nuisance, oppression, persecution, perturbation, peskiness, pest, pestiferousness, plaguesomeness, problem, provocation, provoking, provokingness, red-baiting, tiresomeness, torment, tormenting, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, vexation, vexatiousness, vexing, victimization, wearisomeness, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrisomeness, worry, worrying
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