Synonyms for sickness
All synonyms
Noun
1. Illness — the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness
illness, disease, malady, ailment, ill-health, indisposition, disorder, affliction, infirmity, complaint, distemper, trouble, morbus formal, unsoundness, unwellness
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
Forms
- Plural
- sicknesses → illnesses, diseases, maladies, ailments…
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This distinction has received but a very limited acceptance in the United States, where sick and sickness have the earlier and wider usage. We speak of trifling ailments, a slight indisposition, a serious or a deadly disease; a slight or severe illness; a painful sickness.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- disease Eating healthfully can help prevent heart disease.
- illness Tom attributed his failure in the exam to illness.
- ailment The doctor said that this ailment is incurable.
- malady The doctor said that this malady is untreatable.
- nausea I experience nausea when I go on too many rides.
By length
- 6 letters
- nausea3, malady3, morbus
- 7 letters
- disease2, trouble2, illness2, ailment2, malaise2
- 8 letters
- disorder3
- 9 letters
- complaint2, morbidity4, distemper3, infirmity4
- 10 letters
- affliction3, unwellness
- 11 letters
- unsoundness
- 13 letters
- indisposition
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (nausea3 = 3 syllables).