sickness

English

Etymology

From Old English sēocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪknɪs/

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• Hyphenation: sick‧ness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   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.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7

     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.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

Derived terms

• car sickness
• dative sickness
• homesickness
• motion sickness
• sickness unto death

 

Translations

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

• Ainu: タスㇺ (tasum)
• Arabic: مَرَض (ar) m (maraḍ)
• Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandutʻyun)

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

• Aromanian: lãngoari f
• Catalan: malaltia (ca) f
• Czech: nemoc (cs) f
• Dutch: ziekte (nl) f
• Finnish: sairaus (fi)
• French: maladie (fr) f
• Galician: doenza (gl) f
• German: Krankheit (de) f
• Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)

  Ancient: νόσος f (nósos)

  Ionic: νοῦσος f (noûsos)

• Haitian Creole: maladi
• Hungarian: betegség (hu), megbetegedés
• Irish: tinneas (ga) m, othras m, galar (ga) m
• Japanese: 病 (ja) (yamai), 病気 (ja) (byōki)
• Korean: 질병 (ko) (jilbyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نەخۆشی (nexoşî)

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

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

  Nynorsk: sjukdom m

• Oriya: ବେମାର (or) (bemarô), ବେମାର (or) (bemarô)
• 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)
• Swahili: ugonjwa (sw)
• Tagalog: sakit (tl)
• Taos: hə́olene
• Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu), వ్యాధి (te) (vyādhi)

nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

• Armenian: սրտախառնոց (hy) (srtaxaṙnocʻ)
• Dutch: misselijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi)
• German: Übelkeit (de) f
• Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)
• Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (hakike)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ھێڵنج (hêllnic)

• Latin: aegritudo f
• Romanian: greață (ro) f
• Russian: тошнота́ (ru) f (tošnotá), рво́та (ru) f (rvóta)

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

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ziekte (nl) de
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} malattia (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 병 (ko) (byeong)
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• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 憔悴 (zh) (qiáocuì)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} enfermedad (es) f

References

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