Synonyms for ailment
ˈeɪl məntail·ment

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1. ailment

   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, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

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

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1. ailment

   Synonyms:
   complaint, sickness, illness, disease

   Antonyms:
   recovery, convalescence, sanity, health, robustness, vigor, salubriousness

2. ailment

   Synonyms:
   food, sustentation, nutriment, pabulum, victuals, provision, meat, sustenance, nourishment

   Antonyms:
   poison, bane, venom, starvation, exhaustion

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1. ailment, complaint, illnoun

   an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

   Synonyms:
   ill, complaint, charge

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1. ailmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   disease, ail, illness, sickness, ailing, indisposition, malady, distemper, disorder, complaint

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1. ailmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   malady, disorder, complaint, illness

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1. List of paraphrases for "ailment":

   affection, malaise, disease, illness

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1. Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee:

   The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

2. The Grammy winner:

   I got it severely and I was hospitalized for 11 days — and four or five of those I do not even remember. It really was touch and go and a terribly debilitating ailment.

3. Anna Yaffee:

   The general public may not be aware of the realities of health care in general and certainly not during this pandemic, but I hope that sharing the images reinforces the point that there are people out there who are working tirelessly around the clock to provide lifesaving supportive care to those who are sick, from coronavirus as well as from every other ailment, we aren't heroes, we are just doing our jobs, and right now our jobs are asking more of us in a time when we have fewer resources to work with. We are doing this because we care.

4. James Madison, Federalist 10:

   Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

5. Ahmadu Kanduwa:

   I have this thought, if he had received say five or six doses, he would have been immune from this ailment.