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a) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
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Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
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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 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sickness — may refer to:*Illness *Disease *Disorder (medicine)It could also refer to: * The Sickness , the debut album by Disturbed * Vov Abraxas is the sound * The Sickness ( Animorphs ), the 29th book in the Animorphs series * Corey Taylor, an American… … Wikipedia
sickness — index disability (physical inability), disease, disorder (abnormal condition), pain, prostration Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
sickness — O.E. seocnesse; see SICK (Cf. sick) and NESS (Cf. ness) … Etymology dictionary
sickness — [n] ill or abnormal condition affection, affliction, ailment, bug*, complaint, condition, disease, diseasedness, disorder, ill, ill health, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, nausea, queasiness, syndrome, unhealth, unhealthfulness,… … New thesaurus
sickness — ► NOUN 1) the state of being ill. 2) a particular type of illness or disease. 3) nausea or vomiting … English terms dictionary
sickness — [sik′nis] n. 1. the condition of being sick or diseased; illness 2. a malady or disease 3. nausea … English World dictionary
sickness — noun 1 state of being ill ADJECTIVE ▪ chronic ▪ long, long term (esp. BrE) ▪ The policy includes long term sickness cover. VERB + SICKNESS ▪ … Collocations dictionary
sickness — [[t]sɪ̱knəs[/t]] sicknesses 1) N UNCOUNT Sickness is the state of being ill or unhealthy. In fifty two years of working he had one week of sickness... There appears to be another outbreak of sickness among seals in the North Sea. 2) N UNCOUNT… … English dictionary
sickness — noun 1 (U) the state of being ill; illness: an insurance policy against long term sickness and injury | working days lost due to sickness 2 (U) the feeling that you are about to bring up food from your stomach; nausea: A wave of sickness came… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
sickness — sick|ness [ˈsıknıs] n 1.) [U] the state of being ill = ↑illness ▪ an insurance policy against long term sickness and injury ▪ working days lost due to sickness 2.) [U] the feeling that you are about to bring up food from your stomach, or the act… … Dictionary of contemporary English
