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. Anthony Weiner:

   I accept full responsibility for my conduct. 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.

2. Mariana Fulger:

   It is hard to understand the life of the poor when you yourself never experienced the poverty that you have to share with your children, their eyes, sickness, dreams.

3. Sudarshan Suchi:

   These children, being already vulnerable, are going to get into a spiral in this. It's not just a question of their sickness from Covid -- it's about their education, it's about their health, it's about their basic social security fabric has come apart suddenly.

4. Chicago Teachers Union:

   The District has refused to allow educators to be vaccinated before they’re pushed back into classrooms, and CPS has rejected or ignored thousands of requests from educators for health accommodations for themselves or household members with hypertension, heart disease and other health conditions that put them at higher risk of COVID sickness and death.

5. Jackie Mason:

   It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.