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Plural of sickness

regular plural

The plural of sickness is sicknesses.

Forms of sickness

Singularsickness /ˈsɪknɪs/
Pluralsicknesses
Countablecountable and uncountable

Sicknesses in a sentence

  • The Chinese use a preparation derived from toadskins, which they call senso, as a remedy for several sicknesses.From the entry toadskin
  • Well, you can put on your dancing shoes because sicknesses, diseases and abnormalities will never be found in heaven.2011, Franklin T. Gibbs, The Shocking Truths about Heaven, Hell and Your Birthright Blessing, page 17. From the entry put on one's dancing shoes
  • They lost many a fight to the often mysterious fiercity of consumption, typhoid fever, pneumonia, dropsy and other sicknesses.1976 July 4, “First doctors often last hope of the sick”, in Denton Record-Chronicle, 73rd year, number 289, Denton, Tex., page 18I. From the entry fiercity
  • I don't like the ergophilia, bureaucratitis, technomania and war fever that I'm surrounded by, yet these things don't actually get labelled as sicknesses.2004, Colin Feltham, Problems Are Us: Or Is It Just Me?, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry ergophilia
  • To accept these and kindred social sicknesses as fatalities is as excuseless as to accept tuberculosis or hookworm as permanent and unavoidable ills.1913, John Graham Brooks, “Chapter 16”, in American Syndicalism. From the entry excuseless

Meaning of sickness

  1. noun The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
  2. noun Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  3. noun The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

Full definition of sickness

Questions about the plural of sickness

What is the plural of sickness?
The plural of sickness is sicknesses.
Is sickness countable?
Sickness is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sickness (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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