sickness

English

Alternative forms

• sicknes (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪknɪs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: sick‧ness
• Rhymes: -ɪknɪs

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

2. (uncountable, countable) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.

   Synonyms: disease, disorder, ailment, malady, infirmity; see also Thesaurus:disease

   • 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]:

     I do lament the sickness of the king.

   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount

     Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

   • 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:

     Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.

3. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
4. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense, particularly "Does this exist outside of the phrase dative sickness with reference to the Icelandic language?"?)
   • 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:

     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.

Derived terms

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

Translations

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

• Afrikaans: siekte (af)
• Ainu: タスㇺ (tasum)
• Apache:

  Western Apache: kah naghaa

• Arabic: مَرَض (ar) m (maraḍ)
• Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandutʻyun)

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

• Aromanian: lãngoari f
• Asturian: enfermedá (ast)
• Azerbaijani: xəstəlik (az)
• Bulgarian: болест (bg) f (bolest)
• Catalan: malaltia (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎥᏳᎩ (vyugi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疾病 (zh) (jíbìng)

• Czech: nemoc (cs) f
• Dutch: ziekte (nl) f
• Egyptian: (mrt)
• Even: энэк (ənək)
• Evenki: энумук (ənumuk)
• Eyak: k'ahd
• Finnish: sairaus (fi)
• French: maladie (fr) f
• Galician: doenza (gl) f
• German: Krankheit (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (sauhts), 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (siukei)
• Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)

  Ancient Greek: νόσος f (nósos)

  Ionic Greek: νοῦσος f (noûsos)

• Haitian Creole: maladi
• Hindi: रोग (hi) m (rog)
• Hungarian: betegség (hu), megbetegedés (hu)
• Hunsrik: Krankheed f, Krankheid f
• Ingrian: tauti, läsy, topi (dialectal)
• Irish: tinneas (ga) m, othras m, galar (ga) m
• Japanese: 病 (ja) (yamai), 病気 (ja) (byōki)
• Kazakh: ауру (kk) (auru), дерт (dert), кесел (kesel), науқас (nauqas), сырқат (syrqat)
• Korean: 질병 (ko) (jilbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نەخۆشی (nexoşî)

• Latin: morbus (la) m, aegror m, aegritūdō f
• Māori: māruru
• Navajo: tsʼííh niidóóh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sykdom (no) m, sjukdom (no) m

  Nynorsk: sjukdom m

• Occitan: malautiá (oc) f
• Odia: ବେମାର (or) (bemāra), ବେମାର (or) (bemāra)
• Ojibwa:

  Northwestern Ojibwa: aakoziwin

• Plautdietsch: Krankheit f
• Polish: choroba (pl) f
• Portuguese: doença (pt) f
• Quechua: unquy
• Romanian: maladie (ro) f, boală (ro) f
• Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f
• Serbo-Croatian: bolest (sh) f
• Slovene: bolézen (sl) f
• Spanish: enfermedad (es) f, dolencia (es) f
• Swahili: ugonjwa (sw)
• Tagalog: sakit (tl)
• Taos: hə́olene
• Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu), వ్యాధి (te) (vyādhi)
• Tocharian B: teki
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: خسته‌لق (hastalık), علت (ʼillet), مرض (maraz)

• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎕 (mrṣ)
• Ukrainian: хворо́ба (uk) f (xvoróba)
• Unami: palsëwakàn
• Volapük: maläd (vo), näfätamaläd (vo) (infectious)
• Yiddish: קראַנקהייט f (krankheyt), קרענק f (krenk)

nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

• Armenian: սրտախառնոց (hy) (srtaxaṙnocʻ)
• Bulgarian: гадене (bg) n (gadene), повдигане (bg) n (povdigane)
• Dutch: misselijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi)
• French: nausée (fr) f
• German: Brechreiz (de) m, Nausea (de) f (technical), Übelkeit (de) f, Übelsein (de) n
• Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)
• Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (hakike)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھێڵنج (hêllnic)

• Latin: nausea (la) f
• Portuguese: enjoo (pt) m
• Romanian: greață (ro) f
• Russian: тошнота́ (ru) f (tošnotá), рво́та (ru) f (rvóta)
• Volapük: luvomit (vo)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 憔悴 (zh) (qiáocuì)

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ziekte (nl) de
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} malattia (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 병 (ko) (byeong)

References

• “sickness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.