sickness

Synonyms for sickness

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Antonyms for sickness

noun. malignant growth

noun. illness, affliction

noun. illness, affliction

Word Origin & History

Old English seocnes "sickness, disease; a disease;" see sick (adj.) and -ness.

Our sickness (sin) is revealed to us by the Ten Commandments.

But there was sickness in the mountains and Waba-mooin said that it also was my fault.

Their sickness was the hand of God, but Benny just ain't had enough to eat.

I saw off men's legs, or I help them through a spell of sickness.

For this end he is fed, clothed, and prescribed for in sickness.

"I've got sickness here," she would say, standing in the doorway confronting them.

I could have pronounced him, alone, to be a young man aged by famine and sickness.

His children are shadows—their life a dance, a sickness, a corruption.

Why must I resign the sweetly-painful task of soothing you in the hour of sickness?

They remembered only the latest, which was his weakness and sickness.