sickness

(noun)

noun

1. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

Similar word(s): illness, malady, unwellness

Definition categories: state, unhealthiness

2. defectiveness or unsoundness

- drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure

- a great sickness of his judgment

Definition categories: state, defectiveness, faultiness

3. the state that precedes vomiting

Similar word(s): nausea

Definition categories: state, symptom

Sentences with sickness as a noun:

- I do lament the sickness of the king. -William ShakespeareTrust 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.