Antonyms 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.

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

   Synonyms:
   affection, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, unhealthiness, unsoundness

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1. sickness

   Antonyms:
   health, soundness

   Synonyms:
   indisposition, illness, disease

Matched Categories

1. • Defectiveness
   • Symptom

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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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

How to use sickness in a sentence?

1. Henry Miller:

   Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene -- nine-tenths of it!

2. Josef Stalin:

   Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

3. Michael Cerveris:

   I haven’t missed a show due to sickness since 2004, maybe.

4. John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent:

   Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

5. Ryan Pack:

   Illness: I believe that sickness, illness, is God's way of making you suffer. The sicker you are, the more ill you are, the weaker you will be.

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