sickness
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Other meanings
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.
Synonyms
- nausea
Word history
From Old English "sēocnes".
Where this comes from
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