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.

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1. sickness

   Sickness is a state of being affected by physical or mental health complications, often characterized by symptoms such as pain, discomfort, weakness, fever, fatigue, and other disturbances of normal physiological functions. It may be caused by various factors such as infection, disease, dysfunction of organs or body systems, environmental hazards, or unhealthy lifestyle habits. Sickness can be temporary or chronic, and the severity can range from mild discomfort to life-threatening conditions.

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. Celine Dion:

   I think we all go through a lot of things in life, we all do, whether it's losing someone, whether it's a sickness, something we have to fight, something that life imposes on us and I think I went through a lot. Life had given me the tools to find my inner strength, in a way, to find courage to keep going.

2. Prime Minister David Cameron:

   Too many people are stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but instead are not, some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment. In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.

3. John Pearson:

   Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.

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. Anne Ziegenhorn:

   I felt like that was it, I was going to die and the doctors were going to let me die, silicone sickness in and of itself is one entity. And then you add the mold to it that we had, and then you’ve got two illnesses going on.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sickness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sickness
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=sickness
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sickness