Ailing vs Illness - What's the difference?
ailing | illness | Related terms |
An ailment.
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(countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
Ailing is a related term of illness.
As nouns the difference between ailing and illness
is that ailing is an ailment while illness is (countable) an instance of a disease or poor health.As a verb ailing
is .As an adjective ailing
is sickly; sick; ill; unwell.ailing
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}