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sickishness

sickishness noun: the quality of being sickish.

Noun

sickishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being sickish.
    • After breakfast the hours passed in the sickishness, the invalid waiting, of a major holiday.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Origin of sickishness

From sickish + -ness.

Questions about sickishness

What does sickishness mean?
Sickishness means the quality of being sickish.
What part of speech is sickishness?
Sickishness is a noun.

Words near sickishness in the dictionary

  1. sicking up
  2. Sickinger
  3. Sickingers
  4. sickish
  5. sickishly
  6. sickishness
  7. sicklaemia
  8. sicklaemias
  9. sicklaemic
  10. sickle
  11. sickle alfalfa

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