sickness

English

Etymology

From Old English seocness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.

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

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)

Kurdish: نه‌خۆشی Oriya: ବେମାର (or), ବେମାର (or) Polish: choroba (pl) f. Russian: болезнь (ru) (bolézn') f. Scottish Gaelic: galar (gd) m., tinneas (gd) m., euslaint (gd) f. Serbian: bolest (sr) f. Slovene: bolézen (sl) f. Spanish: enfermedad (es) Taos: hə́olene

nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

Armenian: սրտախառնոց (hy) (srtxaṙnoc’) Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi) German: Übelkeit (de) f.

Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (hakike) Kurdish: هێڵنج Russian: тошнота (ru) (tošnotá) f., рвота (ru) (rvóta) f.

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Mandarin: 憔悴 Dutch: ziekte de Greek: ασθένεια f. (asthéneia) Italian: malattia f.

Korean: 병 Portuguese: doença f. Spanish: enfermedad f.

References

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