sickness
Syllables: sick·ness/ˈsɪknɪs/
sickness noun: the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Noun
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
- I do lament the sickness of the king.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount
Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
- Synonyms:
- disease, disorder, ailment, malady, infirmity, affliction, coath, complaint, egritude, ill health
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic
sickness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sickness in Hindi
- the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady
- रोग rog
sickness in Tamil
- நோய்மை, காச்சலாக
sickness in Urdu
- sickness, disease
- روگ rog
sickness in Bengali
- sickness, illness
- অসুস্থতা ôsusthôta
More languagesFewer languages
- sickness in Telugu
- రోగము rōgamu, వ్యాధి vyādhi
- sickness in Malayalam
- രോഗം, ദീനം, വ്യാധി
- sickness in Kannada
- ಕುತ್ತ, ಬೇನೆ, ಕಾಯಿಲೆ, ರೋಗ
- sickness in Odia
- ବେମାର bemāra
- sickness in Sanskrit
- आमय āmáya, अम ama, छर्दि chardí, क्षय kṣayá
- sickness in Tagalog
- sakit
- sickness in Arabic
- مَرَض maraḍ
Examples of sickness in a sentence
- Swollen breasts, morning sickness, and a missed period are classic symptoms of pregnancy.
- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- The Chinese use a preparation derived from toadskins, which they call senso, as a remedy for several sicknesses.
Synonyms of sickness
5 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of sickness
| plural | sicknesses |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | sicknes |
Origin of sickness
Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
Words formed from sickness
- acute mountain sickness
- African horse sickness
- African sleeping sickness
- airsickness
- altitude sickness
- bleeding sickness
- bottle-sickness
- bush sickness
- carsickness
- car sickness
- claw sickness
- covering sickness
- cybersickness
- dative sickness
- decompression sickness
- dope sickness
- falling sickness
- falling-sickness
- flight sickness
- gallsickness
- ghost sickness
- grass sickness
- greensickness
- green-sickness
- green sickness
- green tobacco sickness
- homesickness
- home-sickness
- horse sickness
- hurry sickness
- in sickness and in health
- irradiation sickness
- Jamaican vomiting sickness
- junk sickness
- lame sickness
- land sickness
- laughing sickness
- leisure sickness
- lung sickness
- lungsickness
- milk sickness
- milt-sickness
- morning sickness
- motion sickness
- motion sickness bag
- mountain sickness
- nail sickness
- needle sickness
- Numinbah horse sickness
- ozone sickness
- Picardy sweating sickness
- pregnancy sickness
- princess sickness
- radiation sickness
- radiosickness
- railroad sickness
- sea-sickness
- seasickness
- sea sickness
- serum sickness
Phrases with sickness
Words that rhyme with sickness
Questions about sickness
- What does sickness mean?
- Sickness means the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
- What is sickness in Hindi?
- Sickness in Hindi is रोग (rog). See Sickness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sickness?
- Sickness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sickness?
- Sickness is pronounced /ˈsɪknɪs/.
- What is the plural of sickness?
- The plural of sickness is sicknesses.
Words near sickness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sickness (page history and authors); sickness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); روگ (Urdu) (page history and authors); অসুস্থতা (Bengali) (page history and authors); sickness (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sickness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); अम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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