sickness
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈsɪk.nəs/
:
enfermedad
- In The Double, Dostoevsky described the sickness and disintegration of one human personality.
- sickness of the soul
You can't have, you know, in I often think of codependency as my sickness enabling your sickness.
- You can't have, you know, in I often think of codependency as my sickness enabling your sickness.
- So it's like Trump government craziness, soul sickness.
- But I also have this internal need drive what I'll call the sickness.
- I think that I think that we we as society guns, we have a sickness in this country.
- And at that point, that's when I for myself, I noticed, well, this is a sickness that I have.
- And it's like, oh, OK, actually, what's happening with him right now has nothing to do with anxiety or this, you know, the sickness can be healed right now.
- It's a kind of a sickness that results from people who have very privileged lives.
- That would be the most important because loneliness will just bring you down and that brings sickness.
- Very little of the sickness that we see so prevalent in society around us is truly genetic.
- The inability to to perceive anything outside your own perspective would probably be the biggest sickness I see.
Examples
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What happened is a symptom of the sickness of a society.
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It's a terrible place, a place filled with sickness and suffering.
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It's a kind of a sickness that results from people who have very privileged lives.
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Now we're in a time where some of us, I believe that we very early on recognize the sickness of Donald Trump.
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Very little of the sickness that we see so prevalent in society around us is truly genetic.
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The sickness invaded our town, ravaged our community.
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There's only one real sickness in all of creation, and that is self-delusion.
Fiction book (1997) -
That's the underlying sickness behind every discussion NBC's having about this.
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The sickness in our society stems from deep-rooted issues that need to be addressed.
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His constant negativity is a sickness that affects everyone around him.
Synonyms
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2.3
An illness that harms the body or mind and causes symptoms
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1.1
A time when a person is sick and cannot do normal things
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3.1
A health problem that affects how a person thinks, feels, or behaves and may need medical help
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7.9
An illness that affects the body or mind
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6.6
A weakness that makes it hard to do everyday things, often after illness or old age
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3.0
Being sick or having a long-term problem with your body
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4.1
The state of a person's mind and feelings
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4.1
A serious problem that affects a person's mind and feelings and may need medical help
A state of not feeling happy, healthy, or well off
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.4
A feeling of being sick because your body has less oxygen high on a mountain
- Specialized
3
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
1
7.4
A condition that happens when body pressure falls quickly and gas bubbles form in the body causing pain
- Specialized
1
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 Unsound
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sickness comes from the old English sēoc ('sick') and the ending -ness ('state of'), and people later used it as a strong picture for moral or social 'illness'. So we call a deep problem in a person or in society a sickness because it is like being unwell inside.