sickness
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
sickness
- /ˈsɪknɪs/
Rhymes with -ɪknɪs
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
noun sicknesses · sicknes
-
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
I do lament the sickness of the king.
Similar: disease, disorder, ailment, malady, infirmity, affliction, coath, complaint, egritude, ill health, illness, indisposition
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case. 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.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: illness, malady, nausea, sick, malaise, ailment, diseased, morbidity, infirmity, affliction, discomfort, disorder, unease, uneasiness, evil, ill
Translations
Every language
noun the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady
| Español | enfermedad, dolencia |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 질병 jilbyeong |
| 日本語 | 病 yamai, 病気 byōki |
| 中文 | 疾病 jíbìng |
| हिन्दी | रोग rog |
| Kiswahili | ugonjwa |
| Português | doença |
| Français | maladie |
| Deutsch | Krankheit |
| Ελληνικά | ασθένεια asthéneia |
| Română | maladie, boală |
| Русский | боле́знь boléznʹ |
| العربية | مَرَض maraḍ |
Talk about this word "sickness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sickness. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sickness. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sickness "sickness." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sickness.Cite this
@misc{sickness_2026,
title = {sickness},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sickness},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
