Illness vs Sickness - What's the difference?
illness | sickness | Synonyms |
(countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Sickness is a synonym of illness.
As nouns the difference between illness and sickness
is that illness is an instance of a disease or poor health while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.illness
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* (instance) sickness * (state) sickness * See alsoExternal links
*sickness
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(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. -.