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English
Etymology
From sickly + -ness.
Noun
sickliness (usually uncountable, plural sicklinesses)
- The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
To wayward sickliness and age in him.
1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1844, →OCLC:Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness.
1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], chapter 7, in Agnes Grey. , London: Thomas Cautley Newby, , →OCLC:My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness, and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day.
Synonyms
Translations
the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health