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noun
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: disease, disorder, ailment, malady, infirmity, affliction, coath, complaint, egritude, ill health, illness, indisposition, sickness, trouble, morbus, rot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: illness, unwellness, malady
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
Narrower terms: condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, catastrophic illness, collapse, prostration, decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bends, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia, growth
noun
the state that precedes vomiting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: nausea
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: symptom
Narrower terms: motion sickness, kinetosis, morning sickness, queasiness, squeamishness, qualm
noun
defectiveness or unsoundness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: defectiveness, faultiness
History
Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
Across languages
110 source translations are retained for this English entry.
