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Flu vs Sickness - What's the difference?

flu | sickness |

As nouns the difference between flu and sickness

is that flu is influenza while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.

flu

English

(Influenza)

Alternative forms

* 'flu (dated), floo (dated)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Influenza.
  • (informal) Common cold.

    • Synonyms

    * (influenza) grippe, grip

    Derived terms

    * avian flu * bird flu * blue flu * diplomatic flu * Spanish flu * stomach flu * swine flu

    See also

    * catarrh English clippings ----

    sickness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    • I do lament the sickness of the king. -
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
    Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    • Derived terms

    *

    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

    References

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