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Webster 1913 Edition
Sickness
Sick′ness
,Noun.
[AS.
seócness
.] 1.
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
I do lament the
sickness
of the king. Shakespeare
Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
Those, age or
Those, age or
sickness
soon or late disarms. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sickness
SICK'NESS
,Noun.
1.
Nausea; squeamishness; as sickness of the stomach.2.
State of being diseased. I do lament the sickness of the king.3.
Disease; malady; a morbid state of the body of an animal or plant, in which the organs do not perfectly perform their natural functions. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those age or sickness soon or late disarms. Himself took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses. Matt 8.Definition 2025
sickness
sickness
English
Noun
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.
- Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from sickness
Translations
the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady
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nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach
References
- sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913