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Definition of "sickness" []

  • The condition of being sick; illness. (noun)
  • A disease; a malady. (noun)
  • Nausea. (noun)
  • A defective or unsound condition. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sickness" in a sentence
  • "He has liver disease now; but his sickness is a judgment of God, and he will die crooked."
  • "I really hope that the sickness is the time travel madness because it would make alot more sense."
  • "“Thou keenest a cure right well; the remedy of his sickness is the Queen of the Serpents, and thou knowest her abiding-place and hast been with her.”"