English Explanatory Dictionary

sickness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪknɪs/ En-us-sickness.ogg

Word forms

sickness sicknesses

Etymology

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

Synonyms

disease disorder ailment malady infirmity affliction coath complaint egritude ill health illness indisposition sickness trouble morbus rot

Derived words

acute mountain sickness African horse sickness African sleeping sickness airsickness altitude sickness bleeding sickness bottle-sickness bush sickness car sickness carsickness claw sickness covering sickness cybersickness dative sickness decompression sickness dope sickness falling sickness falling-sickness gallsickness ghost sickness grass sickness green sickness green-sickness green tobacco sickness home-sickness homesickness horse sickness hurry sickness in sickness and in health irradiation sickness Jamaican vomiting sickness junk sickness lame sickness land sickness laughing sickness leisure sickness lungsickness milk sickness morning sickness motion sickness mountain sickness nail sickness needle sickness Numinbah horse sickness ozone sickness Picardy sweating sickness pregnancy sickness princess sickness radiation sickness radiosickness railroad sickness seasickness sea-sickness serum sickness sickness unto death simulator sickness sleeping sickness sleepy sickness space sickness stiff sickness
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