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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

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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.


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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.

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.

Modifies a noun

  • cover: The most common of these is Critical Illness cover.

Noun used with modifier

  • terminal: For instance, to settle someone into respite care or to nurse someone through a terminal illness.

Preposition: with

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

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

-Armistead, Lewis Addison

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

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

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

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