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illness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Illness \Ill"ness\, n. [From {Ill}.] 1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] ``The illness of the weather.'' --Locke. 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as a short or a severe illness. 3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. --Shak. Syn: Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment. Usage: {Illness}, {Sickness}. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or ``sickness of the stomach.'' From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: illness n : impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: {malady}, {sickness}]
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