sickness
English
Etymology
From Old English sēocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- 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.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- (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.
- 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7
Synonyms
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Translations
the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady
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nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach
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References
- “sickness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.