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illness

[ il-nis ]

/ ˈɪl nɪs /

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noun

unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.

Obsolete. wickedness.

Origin of illness

First recorded in 1490–1500; ill + -ness

SYNONYMS FOR illness

1 ailment, affliction, infirmity.

SEE SYNONYMS FOR illness ON THESAURUS.COM

Words nearby illness

illiquid, illite, illiteracy, illiterate, illiterati, illness, illocution, illocutionary, illogic, illogical, illogicality

Example sentences from the Web for illness

He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

Remembering ESPN’s Sly, Cocky, and Cool Anchor Stuart Scott |Stereo Williams |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism |Arthur Chu |January 3, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
Moses lost her job, and then her home, as she grappled with pain and illness after her spinal surgery.

Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’ |The Center for Investigative Reporting |November 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But it is unfounded fear by an American public at minimal risk of contracting the illness that is confounding those efforts.

Quarantine Turns Ebola Heroes Into Pariahs |Russell Saunders |October 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Complaints of illness, snatching $2,000 from dad, a quick trip to Denver airport—and the three were apparently Syria-bound.

How ISIS’s Colorado Girls Were Caught |Michael Daly |October 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
What would Zulma Sarpy do without him, she that is fretting at the very thought of his illness?

The Bastonnais |John Lesperance
She languished in bed and he diagnosed her illness as resulting from the fact that she was "hidebound."

A Backward Glance at Eighty |Charles A. Murdock
The memory of an illness is very much like the memory of a nightmare.

Notes on My Books |Joseph Conrad
Only a few years ago, illness prevented him from fulfilling his usual custom of spending Christmas with his sisters at Guildford.

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll |Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Illness may also result from small stones, or the spine of the nopal placed in the body by the same agency.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) |Carl Lumholtz

British Dictionary definitions for illness

illness

/ (ˈɪlnɪs) /

noun

a disease or indisposition; sickness

a state of ill health

obsolete wickedness

Medical definitions for illness

illness

[ ĭl′nĭs ]

n.

Disease of body or mind; poor health; sickness.