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sickness

noun

1 sickness

Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.

synonyms: illness, malady, unwellness.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: onwel, ziekte
Polish: syndrom, niedomoga, przypadłość, choroba, patologia, niedomaganie, niemoc, zachorowanie, schorzenie, dolegliwość ... show more

2 sickness

Defectiveness or unsoundness.

3 sickness

The state that precedes vomiting.

synonym: nausea.

Roget 841: weariness, defatigation; lassitude etc. (fatigue) 688; drowsiness etc. 683.    disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness; ... show more

Dutch: misselijkheid, onpasselijkheid
Polish: nudności, mdłości


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 ... show more.

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