sickness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sickness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sickness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sickness n impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism Synonym(s): illness, unwellness, malady, sickness Antonym(s): health, wellness defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment" the state that precedes vomiting Synonym(s): nausea, sickness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sickness \Sick"ness\, n. [AS. se[a2]cness.] 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}.