Definitions for sickness
ˈsɪk nɪssick·ness

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. illness, unwellness, malady, sicknessnoun

   impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

2. sicknessnoun

   defectiveness or unsoundness

   "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"

3. nausea, sicknessnoun

   the state that precedes vomiting

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sicknessnoun

   The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.

2. Etymology: From seocness.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sicknessnoun

   Etymology: from sick.

   1. State of being diseased.

   I do lament the sickness of the king,
   As loth to lose him. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   2. Disease; malady.

   My people are with sickness much enfeebled,
   My numbers lessen’d. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. Mat.

   When I say every sickness has a tendency to death, I mean every individual sickness as well as every kind. Isaac Watts.

   Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
   Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Alexander Pope.

   3. Disorder in the organs of digestion.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Sicknessnoun

   the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady

2. Sicknessnoun

   nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

Matched Categories

1. • Defectiveness
   • Symptom

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sickness' in Nouns Frequency: #2654

How to pronounce sickness?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say sickness in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sickness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sickness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of sickness in a Sentence

1. Anthony Weiner:

   I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse, i entered intensive treatment, found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects, and began a program of recovery and mental health treatment that I continue to follow every day.

2. Charles Baudelaire:

   As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   Strangers frighten me. They remind me of you. Blood spills into the tub. Cramped quarters. Essence of fire. And garlic. Sweaty palms and images of the Diva rock me. Is it too late? Is it? Strangers frighten me. I dance puppet steps killing me hundreds of times over and over; I have a sickness to battle with you always there waiting.

4. M Aurelius:

   Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

5. Hannah Green:

   Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

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