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EtymologyEdit
From the Old English seocness.
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NounEdit
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
- I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.
- Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
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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