Synonyms for sickness
ˈsɪk nɪssick·ness

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1. sickness

   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, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, unhealthiness, unsoundness

   Antonyms:
   health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor

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1. sickness

   Synonyms:
   indisposition, illness, disease

   Antonyms:
   health, soundness

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1. illness, unwellness, malady, sicknessnoun

   impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

   Synonyms:
   unwellness, malady, illness, nausea

2. sicknessnoun

   defectiveness or unsoundness

   "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"

   Synonyms:
   unwellness, malady, illness, nausea

3. nausea, sicknessnoun

   the state that precedes vomiting

   Synonyms:
   unwellness, malady, illness, nausea

Matched Categories

1. • Defectiveness
   • Symptom

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1. sicknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   illness, disease, disorder, distemper, malady, complaint, ail, ailment, indisposition

2. sicknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   nausea

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1. sicknessnoun

   Synonyms:
   illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, disease

   Associated words:
   morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture, convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic

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1. List of paraphrases for "sickness":

   disease, illness, sick, diseases, maladie, ill, nausea

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How to use sickness in a sentence?

1. Scott C. Holstad:

   when they look at me and ask how could you i want to tell them how fucking easy it is you just need a little sickness in the head and an i don’t give a shit attitude

2. Milton Schiffenbauer:

   The results validates (sic) our belief that a diet that includes a tablespoon of cinnamon once or twice a day can be effective in eliminating or preventing viruses from infecting humans and causing sickness, such as colds, flu, and even herpes.

3. Marianne Moore:

   As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

4. Themba Mchunu:

   In my culture people don't like to divulge your sickness. It's about pride, more or less. Just like in my culture, when I grew up, you would never go to people and say, 'I am hungry'.

5. Raphael Warnock:

   He created a lot of trouble for himself in the process. Telling the truth will get you in trouble, yet there can be no transformation without truth, we can not and we will not change until we confront or are confronted by the sickness of our own situation. That applies to individuals, that applies to institutions, that applies to nations.