Sickness
['sɪknɪs] or ['sɪknəs]
Definition
(noun.) defectiveness or unsoundness; 'drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure'; 'a great sickness of his judgment'.
Edited by Dwight--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
(n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Illness, disease, disorder, distemper, malady, complaint, ail, ailment, indisposition.[2]. Nausea.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Indisposition, illness, disease
ANT:Health, soundness
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sickness, is a sign of trouble and real sickness in your family. Discord is sure to find entrance also. To dream of your own sickness, is a warning to be unusually cautious of your person. To see any of your family pale and sick, foretells that some event will break unexpectedly upon your harmonious hearthstone. Sickness is usually attendant upon this dream.
Checker: Salvatore
Examples
- Self-sickness. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- From every provident point of view his mother was so undoubtedly right, that he was not without a sickness of heart in finding he could shake her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Pain, for her, has no result in good: tears water no harvest of wisdom: on sickness, on death itself, she looks with the eye of a rebel. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they died, he at 89, and she at 85 years of age. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The old man clung to his daughter during this sickness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Sickness was new to me at that time, and now a slight touch of fear came over me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Should contagious sickness exist in any of the ports named in the program, such ports will be passed, and others of interest substituted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She felt in no dying case; she had neither pain nor sickness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She wished to fly to her couch, that couch which she, Briggs, had so often smoothed in the hour of sickness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease, and possibly about twenty take the voluntary pilgrimage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- She trembled, her eyes were fixed on the ground, and her lips became whiter than even sickness had left them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She made light of the sickness, and told me to call and take her into the park on the following day. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Isabelle, the child whom I had once nursed in sickness, approached me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In sickness and in death. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Those languishing years would follow of which none but the invalid and her immediate friends feel the heart-sickness and know the burden. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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