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Sickness

//ˈsɪknɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness. uncountable, usually

    "I do lament the sickness of the king."

  2. 2
    impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism wordnet
  3. 3
    Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    the state that precedes vomiting wordnet
  5. 5
    The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case. uncountable, usually

    "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."

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  1. 6
    defectiveness or unsoundness wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.

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