Dictionary

sickness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈsɪknɪs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable, usually) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
   • Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:
   • I do lament the sickness of the king. c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
2. (uncountable, usually) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (uncountable, usually) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic. 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:

Forms

Deriveds

sickness unto death · western duck sickness · car sickness · pregnancy sickness · falling-sickness · sickness bag · grass sickness · carsickness · decompression sickness · milk sickness · railroad sickness · lame sickness · flight sickness · Picardy sweating sickness · milt-sickness · dative sickness · green tobacco sickness · Jamaican vomiting sickness · space sickness · African horse sickness · sugar sickness · trainsickness · three day sickness · bush sickness · serum sickness · green-sickness · sleeping sickness · wasting sickness · claw sickness · simulator sickness · radiosickness · gallsickness · seasickness · African sleeping sickness · laughing sickness · sea-sickness · homesickness · radiation sickness · ozone sickness · sleepy sickness · lung sickness · home-sickness · horse sickness · morning sickness · covering sickness · land sickness · bleeding sickness · airsickness · Numinbah horse sickness · irradiation sickness · summoning sickness · leisure sickness · junk sickness · three-day sickness · swing sickness · altitude sickness · sweating sickness · in sickness and in health · water sickness · stiff sickness · bottle-sickness · falling sickness · nail sickness · green sickness · travel sickness · hurry sickness · princess sickness · motion sickness · greensickness · acute mountain sickness · motion sickness bag · train sickness · needle sickness · sea sickness · cybersickness · mountain sickness · dope sickness · lungsickness · ghost sickness

Synonyms

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

Translations (110)

ast enfermedá (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ckb ھێڵنج (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · twf hə́olene (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ru рво́та (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · cs nemoc (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ca malaltia (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · eve энэк (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · el ναυτία (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · got 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · vo maläd (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · got 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · mi māruru (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · sh bolest (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · gd euslaint (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hu megbetegedés (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ota علت (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · es enfermedad (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · kk науқас (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · kk сырқат (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · es dolencia (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hi रोग (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ja 病 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · apw kah naghaa (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ota مرض (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hy սրտախառնոց (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · de Übelsein (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · pt doença (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · egy U23-m-r:*t-nDs (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ja 吐き気 (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · izh topi (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · kk ауру (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · te వ్యాధి (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · bg повдигане (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · nl misselijkheid (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · nb sjukdom (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ht maladi (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · el ασθένεια (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ko 질병 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · chr ᎥᏳᎩ (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · uk хворо́ба (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · bg болест (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · de Nausea (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · ar مَرَض (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ro maladie (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ga tinneas (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · sl bolézen (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hy հիվանդություն (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ckb نەخۆشی (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · gd tinneas (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · de Übelkeit (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · yi קראַנקהייט (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ga othras (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · grc νοῦσος (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · fi pahoinvointi (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · rup lãngoari (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · fi sairaus (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hrx Krankheed (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · nb sykdom (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · xcl ախտ (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ja 病気 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · la aegritūdō (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · tl sakit (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · qu unquy (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · izh läsy (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · sw ugonjwa (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · nv tsʼííh niidóóh (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · az xəstəlik (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · oc malautiá (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · nl ziekte (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ga galar (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · kk дерт (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · te రోగము (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · vo luvomit (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · pl choroba (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · eya k'ahd (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · gd galar (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · yi קרענק (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · pt enjoo (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · af siekte (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · cmn 疾病 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · uga 𐎎𐎗𐎕 (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · gl doenza (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · de Krankheit (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · de Brechreiz (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · kk кесел (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · or ବେମାର (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · izh tauti (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · pdt Krankheit (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ain タスㇺ (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hu betegség (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · la morbus (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ru боле́знь (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · bg гадене (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · txb teki (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · unm palsëwakàn (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ota خستهلق (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · xcl հիւանդութիւն (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · la nausea (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · ro boală (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · fr maladie (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ru тошнота́ (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · ojb aakoziwin (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · grc νόσος (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · ro greață (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · nn sjukdom (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · vo näfätamaläd (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · hrx Krankheid (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · fr nausée (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach) · la aegror (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady) · evn энумук (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

wikidata: Q12136