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Synonyms for sickness
ˈsɪk nɪssick·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, unsoundnessAntonyms:
health, robustness, soundness, strength, sturdiness, vigor
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
sickness
Synonyms:
indisposition, illness, disease
Princeton's WordNet
illness, unwellness, malady, sicknessnoun
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Synonyms:
unwellness, malady, illness, nauseasicknessnoun
defectiveness or unsoundness
"drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"
Synonyms:
unwellness, malady, illness, nauseanausea, sicknessnoun
the state that precedes vomiting
Synonyms:
unwellness, malady, illness, nausea
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sicknessnoun
Synonyms:
illness, malady, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper, morbidity, indisposition, invalidism, diseaseAssociated words:
morbidity, morbific, malinger, malingerer, malingery, decumbiture, convalescent, convalescence, relapse, malaise, clinic
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1351 | disease | |
#3180 | diseases | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4358 | sick | |
#4888 | complaint | |
#5235 | illness | |
#5268 | disorder | |
#13000 | sickness | |
#15988 | affection | |
#16081 | nausea | |
#50896 | ailment | |
#65670 | malady | |
#72653 | infirmity | |
#79014 | distemper | |
#88853 | maladie | |
#204672 | indisposition | |
#280703 | unsoundness |
How to use sickness in a sentence?
I have to choose, lie down with my choices, make my efforts, try to get better, live to see my sickness not through crazed eyes, but through the eyes of a shared language – reconstructed depths of wholeness.
Rodney Dangerfield, monologue:
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
The majority of Ugandans do not have accurate and meticulously maintained health records that support medical personnel with a starting point in case of ailments or sickness.
What's interesting, too, is that we measured this at midpregnancy, these women very much knew they were pregnant, and they were past that first trimester where cannabis is often used for morning sickness.
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.
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- مرضArabic
- nemocCzech
- Krankheit, ÜbelkeitGerman
- ναυτία, ασθένειαGreek
- enfermedadSpanish
- pahoinvointi, sairausFinnish
- maladieFrench
- tinneasIrish
- galar, euslaint, tinneasScottish Gaelic
- maladiHaitian Creole
- հիվանդություն, սրտախառնոցArmenian
- penyakitIndonesian
- 病, 吐き気, 病気Japanese
- 질병, 병Korean
- morbusLatin
- sykdomNorwegian
- tsʼííh niidóóhNavajo, Navaho
- ବେମାରOriya
- chorobaPolish
- doençaPortuguese
- unquyQuechua
- greață, maladie, boalăRomanian
- тошнота, рвота, болезньRussian
- bolestSerbo-Croatian
- bolézenSlovene
- ugonjwaSwahili
- రోగముTelugu
- bệnh tậtVietnamese
- 疾病Chinese
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