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sickness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of sickness

1 the condition of not being in good health

  • she was plagued by sickness most of her adult life
Synonyms of sickness

illness, indisposition, unhealthiness, unsoundness
Words Related to sickness

malaise, sickishness

affliction, ailment, condition, disease, disorder, dysfunction (also disfunction), malady, trouble, upset

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, lameness, sickliness, weakliness, weakness

hypochondria
Near Antonyms of sickness

comeback, convalescence, healing, mending, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehab, rehabilitation, snapback

fettle, fitness, shape

hardiness, heartiness, lustiness, robustness, ruggedness, stamina, strength, toughness, vigor, vigorousness, vitality

bloom, flush, flushness

weal, welfare, well-being
Antonyms of sickness

health, healthiness, soundness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness

2 an abnormal state that disrupts a plant or animal's normal bodily functioning

  • a sickness that resulted in the death of millions of the nationʼs elm trees
Synonyms of sickness

affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, trouble
Words Related to sickness

contagion, contagious disease

contagium, infection

attack, bout, fit, spell

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness

malaise, matter, pip

epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague
Near Antonyms of sickness

fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomeness

fettle, shape
Antonyms of sickness

health, wellness

3 a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting

  • the sickness that many women feel during the early months of a pregnancy
Synonyms of sickness

nausea, nauseousness, qualmishness, queasiness, queerness, squeamishness
Words Related to sickness

qualm

airsickness, altitude sickness, car sickness, morning sickness, motion sickness, mountain sickness, seasickness

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