Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sickness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sickness \Sick"ness\, n. [AS. se['o]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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sickness
n 1: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part
or all of an organism [syn: {illness}, {malady}]
2: the state that precedes vomiting [syn: {nausea}]
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