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Impairment vs Sickness - What's the difference?

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Impairment is a related term of sickness.


As nouns the difference between impairment and sickness

is that impairment is the result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor while sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.

impairment

English

Alternative forms

* empairment (rare)

Noun

(wikipedia impairment) (en noun)
  • The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.
  • (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.

    • sickness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    • 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. -.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    • Derived terms

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    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

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