sickness

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
2. (uncountable, usually) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (uncountable, usually) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

Synonyms

illness

disease

ailment

pain

malady

nausea

disorder

indisposition

infirmity

diseases

soreness

distress

ache

malaise

affliction

ill

🤢

complaint

sick

🤢

ill health

distemper

faintness

life

calamity

harm

epidemic

unwellness

giddiness

unhealthiness

dizziness

plague

vomiting

weakness

death

💀

haze

infection

hatred

hangover

loathing

frailty

feebleness

disability

obstacle

paralyse

pip

influenza

plant disease

puniness

qualmishness

queasiness

deformity

Translations

maladie

enfermedad

Krankheit

malattia

doença

ziekte

ασθένεια

morbus

Übelkeit

αρρώστια

malaltia

aegritudo

مرض

nexweşî

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪknɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sikness

Inherited from Old English: sēocnes

In summary

From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.