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Synonyms for illness
ˈɪl nɪsill·ness
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illness
Disease is the general term for any deviation from health; in a more limited sense it denotes some definite morbid condition; disorder and affection are rather partial and limited; as, a nervous affection; a disorder of the digestive system. Sickness was generally used in English speech and literature, till the close of the eighteenth century at least, for every form of physical disorder, as abundantly appears in the English Bible: "Jesus went about ... healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people," Matt. iv, 23; "Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died," 2 Kings xiii, 14. There is now, in England, a tendency to restrict the words sick and sickness to nausea, or "sickness at the stomach," and to hold ill and illness as the only proper words to use in a general sense. This distinction has received but a very limited acceptance in the United States, where sick and sickness have the earlier and wider usage. We speak of trifling ailments, a slight indisposition, a serious or a deadly disease; a slight or severe illness; a painful sickness. Complaint is a popular term, which may be applied to any degree of ill health, slight or severe. Infirmity denotes a chronic or lingering weakness or disability, as blindness or lameness.
Synonyms:
affection, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundnessAntonyms:
health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1067 | condition | |
#1351 | disease | |
#3180 | diseases | |
#4055 | disorders | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4888 | complaint | |
#5235 | illness | |
#5268 | disorder | |
#13000 | sickness | |
#13931 | illnesses | |
#15988 | affection | |
#16081 | nausea | |
#21037 | morbidity | |
#50896 | ailment | |
#65670 | malady | |
#72653 | infirmity | |
#79014 | distemper | |
#88853 | maladie | |
#204672 | indisposition | |
#280703 | unsoundness |
How to use illness in a sentence?
Individuals who are sensitive or allergic to mold may experience nasal congestion or wheezing, in general, mold creates more of an 'ick' factor than actual illness.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's certainly a novel and provocative approach to trying to prevent this illness. We need all the help we can get, what we've seen are previews of coming attractions, as they say in the movie theater.
If we ever got to a state where people were getting infected but it wasn't causing any severe illness anymore -- maybe it's a new variant that is much less severe, or it wasn't causing long Covid -- if there were no really significant adverse health outcomes, then we would no longer care as much about cases, but let me be clear, we're not there yet.
The tree basically represents the kind of random violence that is fueled by mental illness that has become pretty much part of everyday city life.
Following a brief illness, investigations have indicated that Christian Lealiifano has been diagnosed with leukaemia and is currently in hospital for further management.
Translations for illness
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- مرضArabic
- xəstəlikAzerbaijani
- хваробаBelarusian
- болестBulgarian
- malaltiaCatalan, Valencian
- nemocCzech
- sygDanish
- KrankheitGerman
- ασθένεια, αρρώστιαGreek
- enfermedadSpanish
- haigusEstonian
- بیماریPersian
- sairausFinnish
- maladieFrench
- breoiteachtIrish
- रोगHindi
- betegségHungarian
- հիվանդություն, անառողջությունArmenian
- 疾病, 病気Japanese
- ავადმყოფობაGeorgian
- ជំងឺ, រោគ, ជម្ងឺKhmer
- 질병, 疾病Korean
- morbumLatin
- ligaLithuanian
- slimībaLatvian
- болестMacedonian
- ziekteDutch
- sykdomNorwegian
- chorobaPolish
- enfermidade, doençaPortuguese
- boalăRomanian
- болезньRussian
- болест, bolestSerbo-Croatian
- ලඩෙSinhala, Sinhalese
- choroba, nemocSlovak
- bolezenSlovene
- sjukdomSwedish
- ugonjwaSwahili
- โรคThai
- hastalıkTurkish
- хворобаUkrainian
- đau yếuVietnamese
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