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Chronic vs Sickliness - What's the difference?

chronic | sickliness |

As nouns the difference between chronic and sickliness

is that chronic is marijuana, typically of high quality while sickliness is the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.

As an adjective chronic

is of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

chronic

English

Alternative forms

* chronick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=8 citation , passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
  • (label) Prolonged or slow to heal.
  • Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
  • Inveterate or habitual.
  • (label) Very bad, awful.
  • (label) Extremely serious.
  • (label) Good, great, as in "wicked".

    • Antonyms

    * (prolonged or slow to heal) acute

    Noun

  • (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
  • (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    References

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    sickliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
  • * , Richard II , act 2, sc. 1:
    • I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
    To wayward sickliness and age in him.
  • * 1843 , , Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. 9:
    • Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness .
  • * 1847 , , Agnes Grey , ch. 7:
    • My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness , and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day.

    Synonyms

    * unwellness

    Related terms

    {{rel3, sick , sickness}}