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We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
Hernan Cortes

Meaning of "sickness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SICKNESS

sickness  [ˈsɪknɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SICKNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sickness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SICKNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sickness

Sickness may refer to: ▪ Disease ▪ Nausea ▪ Sickness behavior In popular culture: ▪ The Sickness, an album by Disturbed ▪ The Sickness, a book in the Animorphs series ▪ Corey Taylor, nicknamed "The Sickness", American heavy metal musician...

Definition of sickness in the English dictionary

The first definition of sickness in the dictionary is an illness or disease. Other definition of sickness is nausea or queasiness. Sickness is also the state or an instance of being sick.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SICKNESS


airsickness
ˈɛəsɪknɪs
anti-motion-sickness
ˌæntɪˈməʊʃənˈsɪknɪs
blackness
ˈblæknɪs
bleakness
ˈbliːknɪs
chromaticness
krəʊˈmætɪknɪs
darkness
ˈdɑːknɪs
gallsickness
ˈɡɔːlˌsɪknɪs
graphicness
ˈɡræfɪknɪs
greensickness
ˈɡriːnˌsɪknɪs
homesickness
ˈhəʊmsɪknɪs
likeness
ˈlaɪknɪs
lovesickness
ˈlʌvsɪknɪs
lychnis
ˈlɪknɪs
quickness
ˈkwɪknɪs
seasickness
ˈsiːsɪknɪs
slackness
ˈslæknɪs
slickness
ˈslɪknɪs
thickness
ˈθɪknɪs
uniqueness
juːˈniːknɪs
weakness
ˈwiːknɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SICKNESS

sickishly
sickishness
sickle
sickle feather
sickle medick
sickle-cell anaemia
sicklebill
sickleman
sicklemia
sicklemic
sicklier
sickliest
sicklily
sickliness
sickly
sickness benefit
sickness insurance
sicknurse
sicko
sickroom

WORDS THAT END LIKE SICKNESS

African sleeping sickness
altitude sickness
blankness
business
dankness
decompression sickness
frankness
Greekness
meekness
morning sickness
motion sickness
mountain sickness
pitch darkness
Prince of Darkness
radiation sickness
semi-darkness
serum sickness
sleekness
sleeping sickness
starkness
travel-sickness

Synonyms and antonyms of sickness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SICKNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sickness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sickness

Translation of «sickness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SICKNESS

Find out the translation of sickness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sickness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sickness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enfermedad
570 millions of speakers

English

sickness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीमारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَرَض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

недомогание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

doença
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসুস্থতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maladie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penyakit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Krankheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

病気
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penyakit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

căn bệnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நோய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आजारपण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hastalık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malattia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

choroba
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хвороба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

boală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αρρώστια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

siekte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sjukdom
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sykdom
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sickness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SICKNESS»

The term «sickness» is very widely used and occupies the 16.558 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SICKNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sickness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sickness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sickness

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10 QUOTES WITH «SICKNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sickness.
1
Saint Teresa of Avila
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
2
Lauren Bacall
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
3
Saint Basil
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
4
Saint Basil
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
5
Dirk Benedict
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
6
Nicolas Chamfort
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
7
Deepak Chopra
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
8
Hernan Cortes
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
9
Diana DeGette
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.
10
Johnny Depp
People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SICKNESS»

Discover the use of sickness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sickness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of ...
An invaluable resource for students, scholars, and general readers, this highly regarded and widely used social history of medicine and public health in the United States is now available in a third edition.
Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers, 1997
2
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological ...
With its penetrating account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
Soren Kierkegaard, 2004
3
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical ...
Argues that pharmaceutical companies are creating and marketing illness in order to improve their sales and profits, revealing the marketing strategies they use to influence medical science and re-define the boundaries of illness.
Ray Moynihan, Alan Cassels, 2006
4
The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care
This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.
Howard Waitzkin, 2000
5
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness
In the follow-up to the perennially classic study Witches, Midwives and Nurses (Feminist Press, 2010 - also available from Turnaround), Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English explore the evolution of the medical view of the female sex and ...
Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English, 2011
6
The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness ...
A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.
Maryinez Lyons, 2002
7
Motion and Space Sickness
This compendium, written by active researchers in the field, encompasses topics ranging from anatomical and physiological subjects, through analyses of stimulus characteristics, prediction of sickness, and consideration of human factors, to ...
George H. Crampton, 1990
8
Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution
This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany.
Rebecca Comay, 2011
9
Evolution of Sickness and Healing
"Establishing a theoretical base and framework for future studies in this new field of 'medical evolution,' the book is important and will be read and referred back to for years to come.
Horacio Fabrega, Jr., Horacio Fabrega, 1999
10
The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks ...
First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover edition.
Owsei Temkin, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SICKNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sickness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Here's The Deal With That Morning Sickness Drug Kim Kardashian's …
Morning sickness during pregnancy is mis-named; the nausea and vomiting can strike at any time of day, and while it's most common during the first trimester of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Morning sickness: The 10 myths that need busting
Half of women who suffer debilitating sickness during their pregnancy are not receiving any help. Up to 1,000 are having abortions each year as a result, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
3
Prone to motion sickness? Avoid these cars
Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, possibly even Apple. The list of manufacturers planning to launch autonomous vehicles over the coming decade is rapidly ... «CNBC, Apr 15»
4
The Saturdays' Frankie Bridge shares details of crippling morning …
Putting her morning sickness woes to one side, The Saturdays singer expressed that this time around she's been more excited rather than anxious about ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»
5
PM David Cameron orders sickness benefits review
About 100,000 people with such long-term conditions are claiming sickness benefits. Prof Dame Carol Black will consider whether the welfare system fails to ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
6
Kate Middleton's Back on Duty, Pregnant Duchess Recovering From …
Middleton's morning sickness had forced her to pull out of a string of royal events in recent weeks, including her scheduled first solo tour to Malta in September, ... «Us Magazine, Oct 14»
7
Kate Middleton Struggling With Morning Sickness After Move to …
As we've been reporting over the last couple of days, Kate Middleton is struggling with morning sickness which has seemingly worsened as she heads towards ... «Celebrity Dirty Laundry, Oct 14»
8
Pregnant Duchess of Cambridge 'struggling terribly' with antenatal …
Her mother Carole Middleton has apparently helped to take charge of her recovery and has been researching alternative sickness cures, such as herbal tea, on ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
9
Kate Middleton Cancels Portsmouth, England Appearance Due to …
The beloved royal, who has been battling severe morning sickness during her second pregnancy, has pulled out of an event scheduled for next Monday, Oct. 13. «Us Magazine, Oct 14»
10
British woman dies of suspected altitude sickness while trekking …
Local police official Purushottam Silwal told the Daily Mirror: "She possibly died of altitude sickness. Her body was airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem.". «Express.co.uk, Oct 14»

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