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Sickliness vs Unwellness - What's the difference?

sickliness | unwellness |

As nouns the difference between sickliness and unwellness

is that sickliness is the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature while unwellness is the state or characteristic of being unwell; a feeling of slight to moderate sickliness.

sickliness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
  • * , Richard II , act 2, sc. 1:
    • I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
    To wayward sickliness and age in him.
  • * 1843 , , Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. 9:
    • Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness .
  • * 1847 , , Agnes Grey , ch. 7:
    • My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness , and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day.

    Synonyms

    * unwellness

    Related terms

    {{rel3, sick , sickness}}

    unwellness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or characteristic of being unwell; a feeling of slight to moderate sickliness.
  • *1887 , , The Autobiography of Charles Darwin , ch. 5:
  • *:During the three years and eight months whilst we resided in London, I did less scientific work, though I worked as hard as I possibly could, than during any other equal length of time in my life. This was owing to frequently recurring unwellness , and to one long and serious illness.

    • Usage notes

    * "Unwellness" denotes a state of being ill, but tends to suggest a lesser degree of ailment than would be indicated by the terms "illness" or "sickness".