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.