sickness
/ˈsɪknɪs/ noun B1- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
- 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.
Plural sicknesses
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He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known.
His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living.
He has undergone hardship and sickness, as his haggard face says clearly.
Duncan Ross; ‘neither sickness nor business nor anything else.
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