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sickness

[sik-nis]
noun
  1. a particular disease or malady.
  2. the state or an instance of being sick; illness.
  3. nausea; queasiness.
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Origin of sickness

before 1000; Middle English siknesse, seknesse, Old English sēocnesse. See sick1, -ness
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Related Words

maladyillnessailmentsyndromediseasedisorderinfirmitynauseacomplaintillindispositionaffectionafflictionbugcondition

Examples from the Web for sicknesses

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  • Is she goin' to give up herself and her easy ways and her sicknesses for ye?

  • Sicknesses come thicker and thicker; friends are fewer and fewer.

    A Lamp to the Path

    W. K. Tweedie

  • But almost all are subject to bereavements, losses, sicknesses, and changes of fortune.

    Astrology

    Sepharial

  • And some sicknesses are much different, and are not like to be so increased by it.

  • Surely our sicknesses he bore, and our pains he took as his burden.

    The Expositor's Bible

    George Adam Smith

British Dictionary definitions for sicknesses

sickness

noun
  1. an illness or disease
  2. nausea or queasiness
  3. the state or an instance of being sick
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Word Origin and History for sicknesses

sickness

n.

Old English seocnes "sickness, disease; a disease;" see sick (adj.) and -ness.

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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
sicknesses in Medicine

sickness

(sĭk′nĭs)
n.
  1. The condition of being sick; illness.
  2. A disease or an illness.
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