Thesaurus: illness

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1. n. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.
2. n. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
3. n. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.
4. n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
5. 1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] "The illness of the weather." Locke. 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness. 3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. Shak. Syn. -- Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment. -- Illness, Sickness. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or "sickness of the stomach."
6. n:100 n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism