What does illness mean?
Definitions for illness
ˈɪl nɪsill·ness
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word illness.
Princeton's WordNet
illness, unwellness, malady, sicknessnoun
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Wiktionary
illnessnoun
An instance of a disease or poor health.
illnessnoun
A state of bad health or disease.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Illnessnoun
Etymology: from ill.
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison-doors set open, is perfectly at liberty, though his preference be determined to stay, by the illness of the weather. John Locke.
On the Lord's day, which immediately preceded this illness, he had received the sacrament. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.
Since the account her majesty received of the insolent behaviour of the faction, during her late illness at Windsor, she hath been willing to see them deprived of all power to do mischief. Jonathan Swift.
Thou would be great;
Art not without ambition; but without
The illness should attend it. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
ChatGPT
illness
Illness is a state of poor health or a condition in which a person's physical or mental condition is impaired, typically caused by disease, disorder, or injury. It is often characterized by certain symptoms and signs, such as pain, fatigue, or fever, and may prevent an individual from functioning normally or optimally.
Webster Dictionary
Illnessnoun
the condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness
Illnessnoun
disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness
Illnessnoun
wrong moral conduct; wickedness
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'illness' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3084
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'illness' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3348
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'illness' in Nouns Frequency: #1161
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of illness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of illness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of illness in a Sentence
One tragic issue in particular is the shame and stigma linked to HIV, this causes thousands of children to needlessly die each year because they're keeping their illness a secret and not getting the medical attention that they need.
Police are not professionals on mental health or mental illness, a person that is schizophrenic, paranoid, the first thing they do when they see an officer in a uniform is panic. They resist.
Untreated mental illness in children pose grave consequences to our communities, including high rates of suicide, academic decline and unemployment.
In the case of contagious illness, the spread of the illness to co-workers and customers or clients is an obvious concern, on the other hand, if illness is neither contagious nor debilitating, it might be self-affirming for people to go to work when not perfectly fit.
Psychology can explain why somebody would turn rage inward on themselves about the fact that maybe they weren't going to keep doing their job and they're upset about that and so they're suicidal, but there is no mental illness that explains why somebody then feels entitled to also take that rage and turn it outward on 149 other people who had nothing to do with the person's problems.
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Translations for illness
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- مرضArabic
- xəstəlikAzerbaijani
- хваробаBelarusian
- болестBulgarian
- malaltiaCatalan, Valencian
- nemocCzech
- sygDanish
- KrankheitGerman
- ασθένεια, αρρώστιαGreek
- enfermedadSpanish
- haigusEstonian
- بیماریPersian
- sairausFinnish
- maladieFrench
- breoiteachtIrish
- रोगHindi
- betegségHungarian
- հիվանդություն, անառողջությունArmenian
- 疾病, 病気Japanese
- ავადმყოფობაGeorgian
- ជំងឺ, រោគ, ជម្ងឺKhmer
- 질병, 疾病Korean
- morbumLatin
- ligaLithuanian
- slimībaLatvian
- болестMacedonian
- ziekteDutch
- sykdomNorwegian
- chorobaPolish
- enfermidade, doençaPortuguese
- boalăRomanian
- болезньRussian
- болест, bolestSerbo-Croatian
- ලඩෙSinhala, Sinhalese
- choroba, nemocSlovak
- bolezenSlovene
- sjukdomSwedish
- ugonjwaSwahili
- โรคThai
- hastalıkTurkish
- хворобаUkrainian
- đau yếuVietnamese
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