'Sickness' definitions:
Definition of 'sickness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness]
noun
Defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"
noun
The state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness]
Definition of 'Sickness'
From: GCIDE
- Sickness \Sick"ness\, n. [AS. se['o]cness.]
- 1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. [1913 Webster]
- I do lament the sickness of the king. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Illness; disease; malady. See Illness. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sickness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- alienation,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- cardiovascular disease,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- clouded mind,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- craziness,
- daftness,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- disability,
- disease,
- disorder,
- disorientation,
- distemper,
- distraction,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- folie,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- furor,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- hereditary disease,
- iatrogenic disease,
- ill,
- ill health,
- illness,
- indisposedness,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- irrationality,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- malady,
- malaise,
- mania,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- oddness,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- pixilation,
- plant disease,
- possession,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- reasonlessness,
- respiratory disease,
- rockiness,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- senselessness,
- shattered mind,
- sick mind,
- sickishness,
- signs,
- strangeness,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- the pip,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unhealthfulness,
- unhealthiness,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- urogenital disease,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- witlessness,
- worm disease
Words containing 'Sickness'
- Sick,
- Sicklied,
- Sickly,
- be sick,
- sick of,
- Claw sickness,
- Falling sickness,
- Gall sickness,
- Green sickness,
- Heart sickness,
- Milk sickness,
- Morning sickness,
- Sick bay,
- Sick bed,
- Sick berth,
- Sick headache,
- Sick list,
- Sick room,
- Sweating sickness,
- air sick,
- air sickness,
- altitude sickness,
- anointing of the sick,
- car sickness,
- decompression sickness,
- iron sickness,
- motion sickness,
- mountain sickness,
- ozone sickness,
- radiation sickness,
- serum sickness,
- sick bag,
- sick benefit,
- sick call,
- sick joke,
- sick leave,
- sick mind,
- sick parade,
- sick pay,
- sick person,
- sickness benefit,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- space sickness,
- Fancy-sick,
- Guilt-sick,
- Iron-sick,
- Love-sick,
- Love-sickness,
- Sick-brained,
- Turn-sick,
- milk-sick,
- sick-abed