sickness

/ˈsɪknɪs/

noun 3

Collocations

(noun.) state of being ill

ADJ

chronic, long, long-term

SICKNESS + NOUN

absence | allowance, benefit | insurance | rate

PREP

due to/owing to/through ~

My brother missed the wedding due to sickness, but he sent his best wishes.

(noun.) nausea

VERB + SICKNESS

suffer (from)

SICKNESS + VERB

rise

A wave of sickness rose in her throat as the boat began to rock.

PHRASES

a feeling of sickness

After eating too much candy, the child experienced a sudden feeling of sickness.

(noun.) particular type of illness

ADJ

acute, chronic | air, car, motion, travel | altitude/mountain, decompression, radiation, sleeping

Definitions

noun

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

I do lament the sickness of the king.

18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — impairment of normal physiological function affecting part o

illness
unwellness
malady

noun — the state that precedes vomiting

nausea

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

I do lament the sickness of the king.

Wiktionary

18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.

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Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.

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There has been a lot of sickness in my family this winter.

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Health is not valued until sickness comes.

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Germs can cause sickness.

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