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ill·ness
(ĭl′nĭs)n.
1.
a. Poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness.
b. A disease.
2. Obsolete
a. The quality of being disagreeable or unpleasant.
b. Evil; wickedness.
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illness
(ˈɪlnɪs)n
1. a disease or indisposition; sickness
2. a state of ill health
3. obsolete wickedness
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ill•ness
(ˈɪl nɪs)n.
1. unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.
2. Obs. wickedness.
[1490–1500]
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illness
- accession - Can be the "onset of illness or a powerful feeling."
- allopathy, homeopathy - Allopathy is treatment to suppress the symptoms of illness using the principle of opposites, while homeopathy encourages, rather than suppresses, the body's reaction to an illness.
- idiopathic disease - An illness of unknown cause.
- languor - Any distressed condition, such as illness, sorrow, fatigue, etc.
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illness
– disease1. 'illness'
If you have an illness, there is something wrong with your health. An illness can last for a long time or a short time, and its effects can be serious or not serious.
The doctor thought that Bae's illness was caused by stress.
You can use the adjectives long and short in front of illness, but not in front of disease.
He died last month after a long illness.
2. 'disease'
A disease is a particular kind of illness caused by bacteria or an infection. Diseases can often be passed from one person to another.
Glaucoma is an eye disease.
Children should be immunised against dangerous diseases.
Animals and plants can also have diseases, but not illnesses.
Scrapie is a disease that affects sheep.
The trees were killed by Dutch Elm disease.
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| Noun | 1. |  illness - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organismcondition - 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 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 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) |
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illness
noun sickness, ill health, malaise, attack, disease, complaint, infection, disorder, bug (informal), disability, ailment, affliction, poor health, malady, infirmity, indisposition, lurgy (informal) She returned to her family home to recover from an illness.
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illness
noun1. The condition of being sick:
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Translations
دَاءٌمَرَض، سُقْـم
nemoc
sygdom
malsano
sairaus
bolest
betegség
veikindi
病気
병
liga
sjukdomsykdom
boală
nemoc
bolezen
sjukdom
ความเจ็บป่วย
sự đau ốm
illness
[ˈɪlnɪs] N → enfermedad f, dolencia f (more frm)illness prevented her going → una enfermedad le impidió asistir
see also mental
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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illness
n → Krankheit f
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ill
(il) – comparative worse (wəːs) : superlative worst (wəːst) – adjective1. not in good health; not well. She was ill for a long time.
2. bad. ill health; These pills have no ill effects.
3. evil or unlucky. ill luck.
adverb not easily. We could ill afford to lose that money.
noun1. evil. I would never wish anyone ill.
2. trouble. all the ills of this world.
ill- badly. ill-equipped; ill-used.
ˈillness noun a state or occasion of being unwell. There is a lot of illness in the village just now; childhood illnesses.
ˌill-at-ˈease adjective uncomfortable; embarrassed. She feels ill-at-ease at parties.
ˌill-ˈfated adjective ending in, or bringing, disaster. an ill-fated expedition.
ˌill-ˈfeeling noun (an) unkind feeling (towards another person). The two men parted without any ill-feeling(s).
ˌill-ˈmannered / ˌill-ˈbred adjective having bad manners. He's an ill-mannered young man.
ˌill-ˈtempered / ˌill-ˈnatured adjective having or showing bad temper. Don't be so ill-natured just because you're tired.
ˌill-ˈtreat verb to treat badly or cruelly. She often ill-treated her children.
ˌill-ˈtreatment nounˌill-ˈuse (-ˈjuːz) verb
to ill-treat.
ˌill-ˈwill noun unkind feeling. I bear you no ill-will.
be taken ill to become ill. He was taken ill at the party and was rushed to hospital.
ill means unwell: He was very ill when he had pneumonia . sick means vomiting or inclined to vomit: He was sick twice in the car ; I feel sick .
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illness
→ دَاءٌ nemoc sygdom Krankheit αρρώστια enfermedad sairaus maladie bolest malattia 病気 병 ziekte sykdom choroba doença болезнь sjukdom ความเจ็บป่วย hastalık sự đau ốm 疾病Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
ill·ness
n. enfermedad, dolencia.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
illness
n enfermedad f, mal m; mental — enfermedad mental; occupational — enfermedad profesional or ocupacional; present — enfermedad actualEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.