sickness
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- noun
- /ˈsɪk.nəs/
:
enfermedad
- He noticed that chronic sickness can have a profound impact on one's quality of life.
- sickness absence
- sickness benefits
- treat sickness
Our training is fully focused on making a profit off sickness, which is wrong.
- Our training is fully focused on making a profit off sickness, which is wrong.
- I told her that I made vows to her in sickness and in health, and she's sick.
- We have just got over the worst sickness bug ever.
- Same thing with going back from sickness to health.
- For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health?
- They don't want a life with disease and sickness.
- An adult hedgehog will get serious, serious sickness and diarrhoea, but a baby hedgehog will die.
Examples
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What if we put the question of care in times of sickness at the center of our lives?
Academic text (1999) -
Osceola decayed in captivity, developing a sickness, and died three months later.
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In sickness and in health.
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We have just got over the worst sickness bug ever.
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A sickness of the lungs.
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Most of the women on the mountain who had this sickness were in their thirties.
Fiction book (1993) -
In addition, we determined sickness and mortality rates on affected farms.
Academic text (2012) -
Knowing about social activities may be extremely relevant when dealing with sickness absence referrals.
Academic text (2012) -
Malnutrition and sickness had spread amongst its crews.
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Many people experience sickness during the winter months due to the flu.
Synonyms
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2.3
An illness that harms the body or mind and causes symptoms
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3.7
A health problem that affects a person, often long-term
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1.1
A time when a person is sick and cannot do normal things
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3.4
A small illness that often lasts a long time
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7.9
An illness that affects the body or mind
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3.0
Being sick or having a long-term problem with your body
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7.9
A minor illness that makes you feel unwell, like a cold
A time when a person feels sick or has health problems
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.4
A feeling of being sick because your body has less oxygen high on a mountain
- Specialized
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5.7
An illness after a large amount of harmful radiation that causes nausea, vomiting, and hair loss
- Archaic
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7.2
A serious brain disease that makes people very weak and keeps some eye muscles from working
- Specialized
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7.4
A condition that happens when body pressure falls quickly and gas bubbles form in the body causing pain
- Specialized
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4.7
A feeling of sickness, dizziness, and difficulty breathing in high places
- Archaic
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9.9
A deadly disease in the 15th and 16th centuries that caused sudden heavy sweating and many deaths
- Specialized
An illness people get from drinking milk from cows that ate a poisonous plant
- Specialized
A condition from breathing ozone at high altitude that causes headache and tiredness
- Specialized
A delayed reaction to a foreign injection that causes fever, rash, and joint pain
- Specialized
A cattle illness that gives calves fever, heavy sweating and skin sores
- Archaic
A serious brain illness that causes sudden deep sleep, muscle weakness, and eye paralysis
How Sick
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sickness comes from the old English word sēoc meaning 'sick' and the ending -ness meaning 'state of'. So sickness is simply the 'state of being sick', which is why we use it for being ill.