Health vs Sickness - What's the difference?
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The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
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, title= A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
Physical condition.
(obsolete) Cure, remedy.
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*:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
(countable) A toast to prosperity.
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The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
As nouns the difference between health and sickness
is that health is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.health
English
(wikipedia health)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Derived terms
* healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health workerReferences
* *sickness
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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. -.