1
a
: ill health : illness
b
: a disordered, weakened, or unsound condition
2
: a specific disease
3
: nausea, queasiness
Examples of sickness in a Sentence
He died from an unknown sickness.
she was plagued by sickness most of her adult life
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Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
Other symptoms include sickness, blurred vision, headaches and difficulty walking.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Another grapples with a sensory sickness, unable to tell what’s real and what’s not.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Do not bring them to a clinic without calling first, to avoid exposing other animals to the sickness.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sickness
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“Sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sickness. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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sickness
noun
sick·ness
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