sickness
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English
Etymology
From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
Pronunciation
Noun
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- I do lament the sickness of the king.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
- 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:
- Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.
- 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.
- 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:
- We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- acute mountain sickness
- African horse sickness
- African sleeping sickness
- altitude sickness
- bleeding sickness
- bottle-sickness
- car sickness
- claw sickness
- covering sickness
- dative sickness
- decompression sickness
- dope sickness
- falling-sickness
- falling sickness
- ghost sickness
- grass sickness
- green sickness
- green-sickness
- green tobacco sickness
- home-sickness
- homesickness
- horse sickness
- hurry sickness
- in sickness and in health
- irradiation sickness
- Jamaican vomiting sickness
- junk sickness
- lame sickness
- laughing sickness
- milk sickness
- morning sickness
- motion sickness
- mountain sickness
- nail sickness
- needle sickness
- Numinbah horse sickness
- ozone sickness
- pregnancy sickness
- princess sickness
- radiation sickness
- sea-sickness
- serum sickness
- sickness unto death
- simulator sickness
- sleeping sickness
- sleepy sickness
- space sickness
- stiff sickness
- sugar sickness
- summoning sickness
- sweating sickness
- swing sickness
- three day sickness
- three-day sickness
- train sickness
- travel sickness
- wasting sickness
- water 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
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References
- “sickness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.