sickness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sick=ness
• COUNT in NET: 12 in 12 verses (in OT : 8 in 8 verses) (in NT : 4 in 4 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

sickness, n. [AS. seócness.].

•  The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.  [1913 Webster]

  "I do lament the sickness of the king."  [1913 Webster]

  "Trust not too much your now resistless charms;
  Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms."  [1913 Webster]
•  Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sickness, n.
1 the state of being ill; disease.
2 a specified disease (sleeping sickness).
3 vomiting or a tendency to vomit.

Idiom

sickness benefit (in the UK) benefit paid by the State for sickness interrupting paid employment.

Etymology

OE seocnesse (as SICK(1), -NESS)

THESAURUS

sickness

aberration, abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, clouded mind, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, craziness, daftness, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disability, disease, disorder, disorientation, distemper, distraction, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, folie, functional disease, fungus disease, furor, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, ill, ill health, illness, indisposedness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, malady, malaise, mania, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, pixilation, plant disease, possession, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickishness, signs, strangeness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unhealthfulness, unhealthiness, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, witlessness, worm disease

ROGET THESAURUS

sickness

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Weariness

N weariness, defatigation, lassitude, drowsiness, disgust, nausea, loathing, sickness, satiety, taedium vitae, boredom, ennui, wearisomeness, tediousness, dull work, tedium, monotony, twice-told tale, bore, buttonholer, proser, wet blanket, pill, stiff, heavy hours, the enemy (time), wearying, wearing, wearisome, tiresome, irksome, uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat, prosy, prosing, slow, soporific, somniferous, disgusting, unenjoyed, weary, tired, drowsy, uninterested, flagging, used up, worn out, blase, life-weary, weary of life, sick of, wearily, usque ad nauseam, time hanging heavily on one's hands, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita.