Illness

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.
  • noun. A disease.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The quality of being disagreeable or unpleasant.
  • noun. Evil; wickedness.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Evilness; badness; wickedness; iniquity; moral perversion.
  • noun. A bad or unfavorable state or condition; unfavorableness.
  • noun. An attack of sickness; ailment; malady; disease: as, he has recovered from his illness.
  • noun. Synonyms Illness, Sickness, Ailment, complaint, disorder. Sick and sickness have been considered until within the present century essentially synonymous with ill and illness. Of late, English usage has tended to restrict sick and sickness to nausea, and American usage has followed it so far as to regard illness as a rather more elegant and less definite term: beyond that it does not seem likely to go. An ailment is generally of small account, comparatively, and local: as, his ailment was only a headache. None of these words represent ordinarily so serious an attack as disease, but illness and sickness may do so. See disease and debility.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
  • noun. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness.
  • noun. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An instance of a disease or poor health.
  • noun. A state of bad health or disease.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
  • Word Usage
    "Along with the addiction is the mental illness, systemic poverty, scary lack of parenting skills, and *illness*."
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