sickness
Meaning
- (uncountable, usually) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- (uncountable, usually) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- (uncountable, usually) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
Synonyms
plant disease
become sick
bad health
feel sick
bad effect
maladie
a cold
Translations
maladie
enfermedad
Krankheit
ziekte
nexweşî
hastalıkFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɪknɪs/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
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