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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1. James Campbell:

   COVID-19 has exposed the cost of this systemic lack of safeguards for the health, safety and wellbeing of health workers. In the first 18 months of the pandemic, about 115,500 health workers died from COVID-19, sickness absence and exhaustion exacerbated pre-existing shortages of health workers and undermined the capacities of health systems to respond to the increased demand for care and prevention during the crisis.

2. Bo Petterson:

   Forgive yourself for the mistakes and try to be a phone call away as they become parents themselves. every person who has experienced sickness or deep suffering knows what it feels like to lay in a hospital and wish for a miracle, and this has been my miracle. I am living my miracle because of his videos and the community that supports him.

3. Gift Gugu Mona:

   God is great! In times of pain, He gives power. In times of sickness, He provides healing and after a loss, He is able to restore what was lost.

4. Arnulf of Milan:

   captured the city of Vercelli, besieged Novara, invaded Como, and destroyed many other places opposed to him. In the end [1014-15], worn down by labor and sickness and deprived of his kingdom, he was content with the monastery named Fruttuaria alone. There, after the regalia had been placed upon the altar and he had donned the habit of a pauper, he fell asleep in his own time

5. Anthony Weiner:

   I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse, i entered intensive treatment, found the courage to take a moral inventory of my defects, and began a program of recovery and mental health treatment that I continue to follow every day.