Synonyms for illness
ˈɪl nɪsill·ness

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1. illnessnoun

   An instance of a disease or poor health.

   Synonyms:
   sickness

2. illnessnoun

   A state of bad health or disease.

   Synonyms:
   sickness

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1. 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, unsoundness

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

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1. illness, unwellness, malady, sicknessnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   unwellness, malady, nausea, sickness

   Antonyms:
   health, wellness

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1. illnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   disease, sickness, indisposition, ailing, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper

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1. illnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   malady, sickness, disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "illness":

   disease, diseases, sickness, sick, illnesses, morbidity, maladie, disorders, ill, disorder, ill-health, malady, condition, ailment

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1. Lee Jaffe:

   For many years we continued to view homosexuality as an illness, and we denied opportunities for learning in our training programs to LGBTQ professionals unless they concealed their sexuality, our views led to discrimination both internally and in society at large.

2. Kristin Graziano:

   Our officers removed Mr. Sutherland from his cell that morning in order to ensure that Jamal Sutherland received a timely bond hearing, as required by law, their efforts were complicated by the increasing effects that Jamal Sutherland was suffering as a result of mental illness.

3. Frances Largeman-Roth:

   Seven servings or more of fruits and vegetables -- especially the vegetables -- can cut your risk of death from any disease, any illness by 42 percent.

4. Council President Mike Brown:

   These efforts have been paying off, demonstrated by a significant decline in illness over the past seven years.

5. Aldous Huxley:

   The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.