sickness
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick + -ness.
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NounEdit
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- I do lament the sickness of the king.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
- 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:
- Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:
- We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.
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TranslationsEdit
the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady
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nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach
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ReferencesEdit
- sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913