sickness

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English seócness.

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Singular
sickness

Plural
sicknesses

sickness (plural sicknesses)

  1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.
  2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

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the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady
nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach
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