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illness Definition

ill·ness (il′nis)

noun

  1. the condition of being ill, or in poor health; sickness; disease
  2. Obsolete wickedness

illness Synonyms

illness

n.

  1. The state of being sick

    sickness, poor health, failing health, ailing, ill health, infirmity, queasiness, vomiting, indisposition, malaise, disorder, relapse, attack, fit, seizure, convalescence, complaint, delicate health, sickliness, unhealthiness, invalidism, decrepitude, collapse, breakdown, confinement, prostration, disability, disturbance, hypochondria, valetudinarianism; see also weakness 1.

  2. A particular disease

    sickness, ailment, malady; see disease, insanity 1.

illness Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • suffer: More than two million people in Great Britain suffered an illness which they thought was caused or aggravated by their current or past employment.
  • diagnose: In addition, there are no blatant symptoms of the disease, so doctors cannot properly diagnose the illness until it's significantly advanced.
  • threaten: If a person has a life threatening illness or injury then they should still call 999.
  • cure: People have been trying to cure illnesses of the eyes for longer than you might think.
  • treat: The pharmacist can give you advice on treating minor illnesses.
  • linger: He died on March 20th, 1919, aged only forty-five, " after a lingering illness " .

Converse of subject

  • affect: We are confident that the support groups will give benefits to many people who are affected by this illness & to their carers.

Adjective modifier

  • mental: Burden of mental illness on the family: A critical review.
  • chronic: The product should also be relevant to the disability or chronic illness.
  • psychiatric: These side effects are more common in people with a previous history of psychiatric illness.
  • depressive: Any claim which results from depression, anxiety, mental illness, or a depressive illness of any type.
  • serious: A serious illness obliged him to retire in 1919.
  • severe: The virus caused severe respiratory illness in 18 people, 6 of whom died.

Modifies a noun

  • cover: The most common of these is Critical Illness cover.
  • insurance: Get a Direct Line critical illness insurance quote online.

Noun used with modifier

  • terminal: For instance, to settle someone into respite care or to nurse someone through a terminal illness.
  • manic-depressive: The Harvard researchers urge further trials of fish oils in the treatment of depression and manic-depressive illness.
  • childhood: But childhood illnesses kill and they would kill today just as easily despite our ' improved ' diet.
  • mystery: Doncaster Rovers midfielder Dave Mulligan has been given a clean bill of health after being taken to hospital with a mystery illness last week.

Preposition: with

  • fever: This is usually a short lived flu-like illness with fever, lymph gland swelling and rash.
illness Quotes

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship.Everyone who isborn holds dual citizenship, inthekingdomofthewell and inthekingdomofthesick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooneror latereach of us is obliged, at least fora spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

—Sontag, Susan

Illness and death†the only things that a tyrant has in commonwith his subjects† In thissensealone, a nation profits from being run byan old man.

—Brodsky, Ioseph

My illness was also my antidote: it cured me of laziness.

—Armistead, Lewis Addison

Der Philosoph behandelt eine Frage wie eine Krankheit. The philosopher's treatment of a question is like the treatment of an illness.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann

Thank Heaven! the crisisö The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at lastö And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.

—Poe, EdgarAllan

Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme'  de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.

—Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes illness worth while.

—Shaw, George Bernard

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada isparanoid schizophrenia.

—Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Neurosishas anabsolutegenius for malingering.There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly.

—Proust, Marcel

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