Injury vs Illness - What's the difference?
injury | illness |
damage to the body of a human or animal
violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
(archaic) injustice
(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
*, II.12:
(countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
As nouns the difference between injury and illness
is that injury is damage to the body of a human or animal while illness is an instance of a disease or poor health.As a verb injury
is to wrong, to injure.injury
English
(wikipedia injury)Alternative forms
* enjuryNoun
(injuries)- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- Slander is an injury to the character.
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* harm * hurt * damage * loss * mischief * impairment * detriment * wrong * evil * injusticeVerb
- The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.