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Illness vs Maladies - What's the difference?

illness | maladies |

As nouns the difference between illness and maladies

is that illness is (countable) an instance of a disease or poor health while maladies is .

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

    Related terms

    * ill * hypochondriac

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    maladies

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • * 1592–1609': As, to prevent our '''maladies unseen, / We sicken to shun sickness when we purge — William Shakespeare, ''Sonnet CXVIII

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