See Also: SICKNESS(law)
car sickness(medicine)
sickness(dictionary)
Sickness(medicine)
sickness(dictionary)
LAST SICKNESS(law)
radiation sickness(medicine)
Morning sickness(health)
Altitude sickness(health)
sweating sickness(medicine)

sickness (iou)



sickness noun. OE.
[from SICK adjective + -NESS.]
The state or condition of being sick or ill; illness, ill health; transf. & fig. the imperfect, weak, or corrupt condition of something. OE.
bed of sickness: see BED noun.
H. Kushner Is good health..normal..and sickness an aberration? V. S. Pritchett Chekhov is the doctor examining the moral sickness of industrial life.
An instance of ill health; a (specified) disease or illness. OE.
falling sickness: see FALLING ppl adjective. sleeping sickness: see SLEEPING verbal noun. SLEEPY sickness. walking sickness: see WALKING ppl adjective.
J. Frame Giving up her life to a sickness that behaved like a predator.
b. = BRAXY noun 1. L18.
An attack of nausea or vomiting. E17.
Practical Health The headache of meningitis..comes on rapidly, with sickness.
fig. Utter disgust with or weariness of something. L18.
C. Lamb The spirit..tired to sickness of the..world.
Comb.: sickness benefit in Britain, benefit paid by the State for sickness interrupting paid employment.