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terminal illness

[ tur-muh-nl il-nis ]

noun

  1. a disease or condition that cannot be cured and will almost certainly lead to death.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of terminal illness1

First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences

Someone without a terminal illness can go through years and years of terrible suffering.

“Someone with a terminal illness will die soon anyway,” he said.

Perhaps more than anything, what people fear most—aside from the pain of a terminal illness—is the loss of control.

They should not be given such a means of ending their lives without a medically-diagnosed terminal illness.

The American public is more or less evenly split on the question of physician-assisted death in the case of terminal illness.

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