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Sickness vs Sweam - What's the difference?

sickness | sweam |

As nouns the difference between sickness and sweam

is that sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady while sweam is (dialectal) a swimming of the head; a fainting fit; a swoon.

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

    References

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    sweam

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A swimming of the head; a fainting fit; a swoon.
  • (dialectal) A snell or sudden qualm of sickness.