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Injury vs Illness - What's the difference?

injury | illness |

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

* enjury

Noun

(injuries)
  • damage to the body of a human or animal
  • The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
  • violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
  • Slander is an injury to the character.
  • (archaic) injustice
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * harm * hurt * damage * loss * mischief * impairment * detriment * wrong * evil * injustice

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
  • *, II.12:
  • The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

    illness

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
  • (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
  • Synonyms

    * (instance) sickness * (state) sickness * See also