Sickness

//ˈsɪknɪs//

Synonyms for "sickness" (139 found)

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Closest matches (28)

Strong matches (42)

Related words (69)

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Translations

98 translations across 63 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries
  • siekte noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Ainu

1 entries
  • タスㇺ noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • νόσος noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Arabic

1 entries
  • مَرَض noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Armenian

2 entries
  • հիվանդություն noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • սրտախառնոց noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)

Aromanian

1 entries
  • lãngoari noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Asturian

1 entries
  • enfermedá noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • xəstəlik noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • болест noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • гадене noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • повдигане noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)

Catalan

1 entries
  • malaltia noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Central Kurdish

2 entries
  • نەخۆشی noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • ھێڵنج noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)

Cherokee

1 entries
  • ᎥᏳᎩ noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 疾病 noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Czech

1 entries
  • nemoc noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Dutch

2 entries
  • misselijkheid noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • ziekte noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Egyptian

1 entries
  • U23-m-r:*t-nDs noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Even

1 entries
  • энэк noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Evenki

1 entries
  • энумук noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Eyak

1 entries
  • k'ahd noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Finnish

2 entries
  • pahoinvointi noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • sairaus noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

French

1 entries
  • maladie noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Galician

1 entries
  • doenza noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

German

2 entries
  • Krankheit noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • Übelkeit noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)

Gothic

2 entries
  • 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Greek

3 entries
  • ασθένεια noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • ναυτία noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • νοῦσος noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Haitian Creole

1 entries
  • maladi noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Hindi

1 entries
  • रोग noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • betegség noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • megbetegedés noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Hunsrik

2 entries
  • Krankheed noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • Krankheid noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Ingrian

3 entries
  • läsy noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • tauti noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • topi noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Irish

3 entries
  • galar noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • othras noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • tinneas noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 吐き気 noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • 病気 noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Korean

1 entries
  • 질병 noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Latin

4 entries
  • aegritudo noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • aegritudo noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • aegror noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • morbus noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Māori

1 entries
  • māruru noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Navajo

1 entries
  • tsʼííh niidóóh noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Northwestern Ojibwa

1 entries
  • aakoziwin noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • sjukdom noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • sykdom noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • sjukdom noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Occitan

1 entries
  • malautiá noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Odia

2 entries
  • ବେମାର noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • ବେମାର noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Old Armenian

2 entries
  • ախտ noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • հիւանդութիւն noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries
  • خستهلق noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • علت noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • مرض noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • Krankheit noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Polish

1 entries
  • choroba noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • doença noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Quechua

1 entries
  • unquy noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Romanian

3 entries
  • boală noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • greață noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • maladie noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Russian

3 entries
  • боле́знь noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • рво́та noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)
  • тошнота́ noun (nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries
  • euslaint noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • galar noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • tinneas noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • bolest noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Slovene

1 entries
  • bolézen noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Spanish

2 entries
  • dolencia noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • enfermedad noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Swahili

1 entries
  • ugonjwa noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • sakit noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Taos

1 entries
  • hə́olene noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Telugu

2 entries
  • రోగము noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • వ్యాధి noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • teki noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Ugaritic

1 entries
  • 𐎎𐎗𐎕 noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • хворо́ба noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Unami

1 entries
  • palsëwakàn noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Western Apache

1 entries
  • kah naghaa noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Yiddish

2 entries
  • קראַנקהייט noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)
  • קרענק noun (the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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There has been a lot of sickness in my family this winter.

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Health is not valued until sickness comes.

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Germs can cause sickness.

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Sickness kept me from attending the party.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.