sickness

English

Etymology

From the Old English seocness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

sickness (usually uncountable; 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.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

Derived terms

• dative sickness

Synonyms

• nausea
• disease
• illness
• infirmity
• malady

Hyponyms

• car sickness
• homesickness
• motion sickness

Translations

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

• Ainu: タスㇺ (tasum)
• Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandut’yun) 

  Old Armenian: հիւանդութիւն (hiwandutʿiwn), ախտ (axt)

• Finnish: sairaus (fi)
• French: maladie (fr) f
• German: Krankheit (de) f
• Haitian Creole: maladi
• Irish: tinneas (ga) m
• Japanese: 病気 (ja) (byōki)
• Korean: 질병 (ko) (jilbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نه‌خۆشی (ckb)

• Oriya: ବେମାର (or), ବେମାର (or)
• Polish: choroba (pl) f
• Portuguese: doença (pt) f
• Romanian: maladie (ro) f, boală (ro) f
• Russian: болезнь (ru) (bolézn') f 
• Scottish Gaelic: galar (gd) m, tinneas (gd) m, euslaint (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: bolest (sh) f
• Slovene: bolézen (sl) f
• Spanish: enfermedad (es)
• Taos: hə́olene
• Telugu: రోగము (te)

nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

• Armenian: սրտախառնոց (hy) (srtxaṙnoc’) 
• Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi)
• German: Übelkeit (de) f
• Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (hakike)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هێڵنج (ckb)

• Romanian: greață (ro) f
• Russian: тошнота (ru) (tošnotá) f , рвота (ru) (rvóta) f 

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 憔悴 (cmn)
• Dutch: ziekte (nl) de
• Greek: ασθένεια (el) (asthéneia) f 
• Italian: malattia (it) f

• Korean: 병 (ko)
• Portuguese: doença (pt) f
• Spanish: enfermedad (es) f

References

• sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913