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sick·ness  (skns)

n.

1. The condition of being sick; illness.

2. A disease; a malady.

3. Nausea.

4. A defective or unsound condition.

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sickness [ˈsɪknɪs]

n

1. (Medicine / Pathology) an illness or disease

2. (Medicine / Pathology) nausea or queasiness

3. (Medicine) the state or an instance of being sick

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sickness - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism illness, unwellness, malady condition - an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition" health problem, ill health, unhealthiness - a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain ague - a fit of shivering or shaking amyloidosis - a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma anuresis, anuria - inability to urinate catastrophic illness - severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines collapse, prostration - an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion; "the commander's prostration demoralized his men" bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, aeroembolism, air embolism - pain resulting from rapid change in pressure food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder - illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism - toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning hypermotility - excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract indisposition - a slight illness ozone sickness - illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy - an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine growth - (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
	2.	sickness - defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment" defectiveness, faultiness - the state of being defective
	3.	sickness - the state that precedes vomiting     nausea kinetosis, motion sickness - the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease morning sickness - nausea early in the day; a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy queasiness, squeamishness, qualm - a mild state of nausea

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sickness

noun

1. illness, disorder, ailment, disease, complaint, bug (informal), affliction, malady, infirmity, indisposition, lurgy (informal) a sickness that affects children

2. nausea, queasiness, biliousness He felt a great rush of sickness.

3. vomiting, nausea, upset stomach, throwing up, puking (slang), retching, barfing (U.S. slang) Symptoms include sickness and diarrhoea.

Translations

sickness [ˈsɪknɪs]

A. N

1. (= illness) → enfermedad f
after several months of sickness he was able to return to work → después de varios meses de enfermedad pudo regresar al trabajo
in sickness and in health → en la salud y en la enfermedad

2. (= feeling of nausea) → náuseas fpl; (= vomiting) → vómitos mpl
see also altitude B
see also mountain B
see also travel D

B. CPD sickness benefit N → subsidio m de enfermedad
to be on sickness benefit → recibir el subsidio de enfermedad

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sickness [ˈsɪknəs] n

(= illness) → maladie f

(= vomiting) → vomissements mpl
sickness benefit n (= sick pay while temporarily off work) → indemnités fpl maladie, indemnités fpl de maladie (= incapacity benefit) → pension f d'invalidité
sick note n (for work) → certificat m médical; (for school) → mot m d'absence
sick pay n → indemnités versée par l'employeur)fpl (de) maladie >

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sickness

n (Med) → Krankheit f (also fig); (= nausea) → Übelkeit f; (= vomiting) → Erbrechen nt; (of joke, book, film) → Geschmacklosigkeit f; there is sickness on board → an Bord geht eine Krankheit um; in sickness and in health → in guten und in schlechten Zeiten or Tagen; the sickness of his mind → seine Abartigkeit

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sickness [ˈsɪknɪs] n → malattia
there's a lot of sickness about → c'è molta gente malata
wave of sickness → ondata di malessere

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sickness [ˈsɪknɪs] n → malattia
there's a lot of sickness about → c'è molta gente malata
wave of sickness → ondata di malessere

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sickness → سقم nemoc sygdom Krankheit αρρώστια enfermedad sairaus maladie bolest malattia 病気 병 ziekte sykdom choroba doença болезнь sjukdom ความเจ็บป่วย hastalık căn bệnh 病