sickness
sick·ness (-nis)
noun
- the condition of being sick or diseased; illness
- a malady or disease
- nausea
Converse of object
- sleep: The impact of sleeping sickness is not just of concern for areas where the disease is endemic.
- relieve: Our separate publication CC6: The Relief of Sickness gives further guidance on the different ways charities can relieve sickness.
- heal: Perhaps connected with this was the belief that sacred waters could also heal sickness, especially of the eye.
- sweat: Influenza was common, referred to as the ' sweating sickness ' .
- alleviate: Our objective is to alleviate sickness and illness and find treatments and cures for the medical conditions which are collectively called Down's syndrome.
Adjective modifier
- acute: Acute mountain sickness Acute mountain sickness is the name given to two life-threatening complications of acute altitude sickness.
- sleepy: Sleepy sickness was brought to popular attention by the Hollywood film ' Awakenings ' starring Robert de Niro.
- equine: Some aspects of the epidemiology of equine grass sickness.
- chronic: In the UK, respiratory conditions are the third commonest cause of chronic sickness in working people aged 45 - 64 years.
- long-term: Support sick employees Long-term sickness must be handled sensitively.
- African: The diseases, which include African sleeping sickness, Chagas ' disease and leishmaniasis, are among the most neglected in the world.
Modifies a noun
- absence: Details of how sickness absence should be notified should be included in the staff handbook.
- absenteeism: Perhaps not surprisingly, sickness absenteeism for the preceding 24 months is 0 % .
- tablet: So remember to take your motion sickness tablets beforehand.
Noun used with modifier
- decompression: Women are more at risk of decompression sickness than men.
- altitude: Danger signals for altitude sickness Danger signals usually develop in the first 36 hours.
- sleeping: Sleeping sickness was first described in the fourteenth century in what is now the country of Mali.
- motion: Motion sickness provides a unique setting for the study of nausea.
- simulator: The study, completed in 1996 ( 2 ), highlighted such side effects as simulator sickness, disorientation and physical discomfort.
- morning: Morning sickness: You will probably feel sick in the morning for about a six-week period, starting about two months into your pregnancy.
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.
Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.
Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wiltthou loveher, comfort her, honour, and keep her, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him, so long as 142 ye both shall live?
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
Four spectres haunt the pooröold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor mortis conturbat me.
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Browse dictionary entries near sickness
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- sickle bar
- sickle
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- sicko
- sickout
- sickroom
- Siddhartha
- Siddons
- siddur
- side
- side arm
- side by side
- side chain
