sickness

[sik-nis]

noun

1. a particular disease or malady.

2. the state or an instance of being sick; illness.

3. nausea; queasiness.

sickness

/ ˈsɪknɪs /

noun

1. an illness or disease

2. nausea or queasiness

3. the state or an instance of being sick

Word History and Origins

Origin of sickness¹

before 1000; Middle English siknesse, seknesse, Old English sēocnesse. See sick ¹, -ness

Example Sentences

One person had died from hypothermia and altitude sickness, but the others were reportedly in good condition.

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After that fall, each bout of sickness or medical procedure causes a cruel chain reaction, like a diabolical Rube Goldberg machine.

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Shortly before his diagnosis with lung cancer, he signed off one letter “In sickness and in haste.”

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Lady Beckham brings him up in conversation, when discussing the morning sickness she faced while pregnant with him and performing with the Spice Girls.

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"The current system is actually very adversarial. Our parents are increasingly tired and anxious and fed up of fighting… Staff sickness levels are really, really high at the moment," she says.

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