Dictionary Definition
sickness
Noun
1 impairment of normal physiological function
affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady] [ant: health, health]
2 the state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
seócness.Noun
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness;
disease or malady.
- I do lament the sickness of the king. -William
Shakespeare
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Pope.
- I do lament the sickness of the king. -William
Shakespeare
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Hyponyms
Translations
the quality or state of being sick or diseased;
illness; disease or malady
- Finnish: sairaus
- French: maladie
- German: Krankheit
- Irish: tinneas
- Japanese: 病気
- Kurdish:
- Polish: choroba
- Russian: болезнь
nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach
- Finnish: pahoinvointi
- German: Übelkeit
- Japanese: 吐き気
- Kurdish:
- Russian: тошнота
- ttbc Chinese: 憔悴
- ttbc Dutch: ziekte de
- ttbc Greek: ασθένεια (asthéneia)
- ttbc Italian: malattia
- ttbc Korean: 병
- ttbc Portuguese: doença
- ttbc Spanish: enfermedad
References
Extensive Definition
Sickness may refer to:
It could also refer to:
- The Sickness, the debut album by Disturbed
- The Sickness (Animorphs), the 29th book in the Animorphs series
See also
- Sick (disambiguation)
- Sicko (disambiguation)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aberration, abnormality, acute disease,
affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease,
allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease,
birth defect, blight,
brain damage, brainsickness,
cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease,
clouded mind, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect,
craziness, daftness, defect, deficiency disease,
deformity,
degenerative disease, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disability, disease, disorder, disorientation, distemper, distraction, endemic, endemic disease,
endocrine disease, epidemic disease, folie, functional disease, fungus
disease, furor,
gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease,
iatrogenic disease, ill, ill
health, illness,
indisposedness,
indisposition,
infectious disease, infirmity, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of
mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, malady, malaise, mania, mental deficiency, mental
derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance,
mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind
overthrown, mindsickness, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease,
neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease,
oddness, organic
disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, pixilation, plant disease,
possession, protozoan
disease, psychosomatic disease, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness,
respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease,
seediness, senselessness, shattered
mind, sick mind, sickishness, signs, strangeness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, unbalance, unbalanced mind,
unhealthfulness,
unhealthiness,
unsaneness, unsound
mind, unsoundness,
unsoundness of mind, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting
disease, witlessness, worm
disease