sickliness
sickliness noun: the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
Noun
sickliness (usually uncountable, plural sicklinesses)
- The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
- I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
To wayward sickliness and age in him.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to... - Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- unwellness
- I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
Synonyms of sickliness
Forms of sickliness
| plural | sicklinesses |
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Origin of sickliness
From sickly + -ness.
Questions about sickliness
- What does sickliness mean?
- Sickliness means the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
- What part of speech is sickliness?
- Sickliness is a noun.
- What is the plural of sickliness?
- The plural of sickliness is sicklinesses.
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