English noun: sickness |
| 1. | sickness (state) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
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| Synonyms | illness, malady, unwellness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | health problem, ill health, unhealthiness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aeroembolism, ague, air embolism, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, bends, caisson disease, catastrophic illness, collapse, condition, decompression sickness, disease, food poisoning, gas embolism, gastrointestinal disorder, growth, hypermotility, indisposition, lead poisoning, ozone sickness, plumbism, prostration, saturnism, toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy |
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| Antonyms | health, wellness |
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| 2. | sickness (state) defectiveness or unsoundness |
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| Samples | Drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure.
A great sickness of his judgment.
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| Broader (hypernym) | defectiveness, faultiness |
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| 3. | sickness (state) the state that precedes vomiting |
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| Synonyms | nausea |
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| Broader (hypernym) | symptom |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | kinetosis, morning sickness, motion sickness, qualm, queasiness, squeamishness |
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