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 (oh)



[U] the state of being ill
-synonym illness illness
::an insurance policy against long-term sickness and injury
::working days lost due to sickness
[U] the feeling that you are about to bring up food from your stomach, or the act of bringing food up
-synonym nausea nausea
travel/motion/car/sea etc sickness
(=sickness that some people get while travelling)
::Liam had suffered violent sickness and diarrhoea.
-see also morning sickness , sleeping sickness
[C] a particular illness
::war-related sicknesses
[U and C] the serious problems and weaknesses of a social, political, or economic system
::He said the idea of 'success' was part of the sickness of Western cultures.