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Sickness vs Unwellness - What's the difference?

sickness | unwellness |

As nouns the difference between sickness and unwellness

is that sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady while unwellness is the state or characteristic of being unwell; a feeling of slight to moderate sickliness.

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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    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".