Definition of sickness

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Sickness (n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

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Restoration :: Restoration (n.) The state of being restored; recovery of health, strength, etc.; as, restoration from sickness..
Sufferer :: Sufferer (n.) One who suffers; one who endures or undergoes suffering; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness; men are sufferers by fire or by losses at sea..
Convalesce :: Convalesce (v. i.) To recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce..
Convalescent :: Convalescent (n.) One recovering from sickness.
Surfeit :: Surfeit (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess..
Nostalgia :: Nostalgia (n.) Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness..
Invalidism :: Invalidism (n.) The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.
Love-sickness :: Love-sickness (n.) The state of being love-sick.
Affliction :: Affliction (n.) The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief..
Nausea :: Nausea (n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing..
Peakish :: Peakish (a.) Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly..
Epilepsy :: Epilepsy (n.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles..
Slows :: Slows (n.) Milk sickness.
Emaciate :: Emaciate (v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him..
Morbidity :: Morbidity (n.) Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Seasickness :: Seasickness (n.) The peculiar sickness, characterized by nausea and prostration, which is caused by the pitching or rolling of a vessel..
Disease :: Disease (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
Sick :: Sick (n.) Sickness.
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) The sweating sickness.
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