sickness.
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Meaning & usage
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
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.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.