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sicklinesses

sicklinesses is the plural of sickliness.

Meaning of sickliness

Noun

sickliness (usually uncountable, plural sicklinesses)

  1. (usually) 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...
    Synonyms:
    unwellness

Questions about sicklinesses

What is sicklinesses the plural of?
Sicklinesses is the plural of sickliness.

Words near sicklinesses in the dictionary

  1. sicklifies
  2. sicklify
  3. sicklifying
  4. sicklily
  5. sickliness
  6. sicklinesses
  7. sickling
  8. sicklings
  9. sicklist
  10. sicklists
  11. sickly

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