sickness

Meanings

Plural: sicknesses

Noun

• impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
• defectiveness or unsoundness
  • "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"
  • "a great sickness of his judgment"
• the state that precedes vomiting
• The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
• Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
• The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

Synonyms

disease, illness, infirmity, malady, nausea, unwellness

Antonyms

wellness