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sickness

[ sik-nis ]

noun

  1. a particular disease or malady.
  2. the state or an instance of being sick; illness.
  3. nausea; queasiness.


sickness

/ ˈsɪknɪs /

noun

  1. an illness or disease
  2. nausea or queasiness
  3. the state or an instance of being sick


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sickness1

before 1000; Middle English siknesse, seknesse, Old English sēocnesse. See sick 1, -ness

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Example Sentences

The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.

You already protect you, and look after you in sickness and in health.

I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.

The news is being taken as confirmation that Kate is fully recovered from her pregnancy sickness.

And now that you mention it, I also got seasick, and had altitude sickness, and had to be rescued a few times.

Sickness had never blanched the warm glow on her cheeks, or dimmed the brightness of her large, lustrous eyes.

"Sleeping sickness" is a late stage when the organisms have invaded the cerebrospinal fluid.

So that (wonderful to relate) they had no sickness, although there was sufficient cause for it in the privations they suffered.

They arrived on the 29th January, after a very good passage, and without one hour's sickness.

The same story everywhere—lack of men, meaning extra work—which again means sickness and still greater lack of men.

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