sickness

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

Noun

1. a particular illness or disease: sleeping sickness

2. the state of being ill or unhealthy: absent from work due to sickness

3. a feeling of queasiness in the stomach followed by vomiting

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)

noun 2. nausea, queasiness

noun 3. vomiting, nausea, upset stomach, throwing up, puking (slang) retching, barfing U.S. (slang)

Translations

sickness [ˈsɪknɪs] n → enfermedad f; mal m (= vomiting); náuseas fpl

sickness [ˈsɪknɪs] sick n → maladie f (= vomiting); vomissement(s) m(pl)

sickness [ˈsɪknɪs] sick n → Krankheit f;

(vomiting) → Erbrechen nt

sickness [ˈsɪknɪs] n → malattia (= vomiting); vomito