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sickness definition

sick·ness (-nis)

noun

  1. the condition of being sick or diseased; illness
  2. a malady or disease
  3. nausea

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sickness Synonyms

sickness

n.

ill health, ailment, infirmity; see illness 1.


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sickness Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • sleep: The impact of sleeping sickness is not just of concern for areas where the disease is endemic.

Adjective modifier

  • acute: Acute mountain sickness Acute mountain sickness is the name given to two life-threatening complications of acute altitude sickness.

Modifies a noun

  • absence: Details of how sickness absence should be notified should be included in the staff handbook.

Noun used with modifier

  • decompression: Women are more at risk of decompression sickness than men.
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sickness quotes

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?

-Book of Common Prayer

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?

-Book of Common Prayer

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.

-Book of Common Prayer

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