sickness
The quality or state of being sick or diseasedThe quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
» She was absent from school because of sickness.
Она отсутствовала в школе по болезни.
Вона була відсутня у школі через хворобу.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable, usually)The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Krankheit
боле́зньboléznʹ
хворо́баxvoróba
(uncountable, usually)Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Brechreiz, Nausea, Übelkeit
тошнота́tošnotá, рво́таrvóta
(uncountable, usually)The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- defectiveness or unsoundness
- the state that precedes vomiting
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
Examples
96 sentencesShe was absent from school because of sickness.
Вона була відсутня у школі через хворобу.
ruОна отсутствовала в школе по болезни.
Eating too much may lead to sickness.
ruНеумеренность в еде может привести к болезням.
deZu vieles Essen kann krank machen.
His long sickness ran him into debt.
Please give me medicine for motion sickness.
It took her four months to recover from her sickness.
ruУ нее ушло четыре месяца на то, чтобы восстановиться после болезни.
Translations
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Origin
Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyInherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
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Forms
plural: sicknesses| Singular | sickness |
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Synonyms
18 synonyms- the state that precedes vomiting:nausea
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism:illnessunwellnessmalady
Word family
58 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable