sickness
The quality or state of being sick or diseasedThe quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Recorded US: Neskaya, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
» She was absent from school because of sickness.
Она отсутствовала в школе по болезни. — drewhka
Вона була відсутня у школі через хворобу. — mutternoise
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Examples
96 sentencesShe was absent from school because of sickness.
Вона була відсутня у школі через хворобу. — mutternoise
ruОна отсутствовала в школе по болезни. — drewhka
Eating too much may lead to sickness.
ruНеумеренность в еде может привести к болезням. — yatomoya
deZu vieles Essen kann krank machen. — Manfredo
His long sickness ran him into debt.
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.
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
- defectiveness or unsoundness
- the state that precedes vomiting
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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regular
Synonyms
17 synonyms- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism:illnessunwellnessmalady
- the state that precedes vomiting:nausea
Word family
58 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.