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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism;
[syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness]

2. defectiveness or unsoundness;
- Example: "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"
- Example: "a great sickness of his judgment"

3. the state that precedes vomiting;
[syn: nausea, sickness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sickness \Sick"ness\, n. [AS. se['o]cness.]
   1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness;
      sisease or malady.
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            I do lament the sickness of the king. --Shak.
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            Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
            Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. --Pope.
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   2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
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   Syn: Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sickness
    n 1: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part
         or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness,
         malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness]
    2: defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness
       they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"
    3: the state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness]