Thesaurus: sickness

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1. n. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
2. n. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. n. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
4. n. defectiveness or unsoundness
5. n. the state that precedes vomiting
6. 1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope. 2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. Syn. -- Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.
7. n:100 n. defectiveness or unsoundness