sickness

English

Etymology

From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɪknɪs/
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Rhymes: -ɪknɪs
Hyphenation: sick‧ness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
  I do lament the sickness of the king.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount
  Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
- 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:
  Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
(linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:
  We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

Synonyms

(quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

Derived terms

car sickness
dative sickness
homesickness
motion sickness
sickness unto death

Translations

the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady

Ainu: タスㇺ (tasum)
Apache:
Western Apache: kah naghaa
Arabic: مَرَض‎ (ar) m (maraḍ)
Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandutʿyun)
Old Armenian: հիւանդութիւն (hiwandutʿiwn), ախտ (axt)
Aromanian: lãngoari f
Azerbaijani: xəstəlik (az)
Bulgarian: болест (bg) f (bolest)
Catalan: malaltia (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎥᏳᎩ (vyugi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 疾病 (zh) (jíbìng)
Czech: nemoc (cs) f
Dutch: ziekte (nl) f
Egyptian:

(mrt)
Even: энэк (ənək)
Evenki: энумук (ənumuk)
Finnish: sairaus (fi)
French: maladie (fr) f
Galician: doenza (gl) f
German: Krankheit (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (sauhts), 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (siukei)
Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)
Ancient: νόσος f (nósos)
Ionic: νοῦσος f (noûsos)
Haitian Creole: maladi
Hungarian: betegség (hu), megbetegedés (hu)
Hunsrik: Krankheed f, Krankheid f
Irish: tinneas (ga) m, othras m, galar (ga) m
Japanese: 病 (ja) (yamai), 病気 (ja) (byōki)
Korean: 질병 (ko) (jilbyeong)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نەخۆشی‎ (ku) (nexoşî)
Latin: morbus (la) m, aegror m, aegritudo f
Maori: māruru
Navajo: tsʼííh niidóóh
Northwestern Ojibwa: aakoziwin
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sykdom (no) m, sjukdom (no) m
Nynorsk: sjukdom m
Occitan: malautiá (oc) f
Oriya: ବେମାର (or) (bemarô), ବେମାର (or) (bemarô)
Plautdietsch: Krankheit f
Polish: choroba (pl) f
Portuguese: doença (pt) f
Quechua: unquy
Romanian: maladie (ro) f, boală (ro) f
Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f
Serbo-Croatian: bolest (sh) f
Slovene: bolézen (sl) f
Spanish: enfermedad (es), dolencia (es) f
Swahili: ugonjwa (sw)
Tagalog: sakit (tl)
Taos: hə́olene
Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu), వ్యాధి (te) (vyādhi)
Tocharian B: teki
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎕 (mrṣ)

nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

Armenian: սրտախառնոց (hy) (srtaxaṙnocʿ)
Bulgarian: гадене (bg) n (gadene), повдигане (bg) n (povdigane)
Dutch: misselijkheid (nl) f
Finnish: pahoinvointi (fi)
German: Übelkeit (de) f
Greek: ναυτία (el) f (naftía)
Japanese: 吐き気 (ja) (hakike)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھێڵنج‎ (hêllnic)
Latin: aegritudo f
Romanian: greață (ro) f
Russian: тошнота́ (ru) f (tošnotá), рво́та (ru) f (rvóta)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ziekte (nl) de
Italian: ^{(please verify)} malattia (it) f
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 병 (ko) (byeong)
Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 憔悴 (zh)

References

sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913