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Sickness vs Swoon - What's the difference?

sickness | swoon |

As nouns the difference between sickness and swoon

is that sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady while swoon is swan.

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

    *

    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

    References

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    swoon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * swound (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
  • An infatuation

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1918 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Gods of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}
  • to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)

    • Derived terms

    * swooningly

    Synonyms

    * (faint) black out, faint, lose consciousness, pass out * (be overwhelmed by emotion)