# sickness
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick +‎ -ness.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɪknɪs/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: sick‧ness
* Rhymes: -ɪknɪs

### Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
* The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
** c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:I do lament the sickness of the king.
** 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
** 23 March 1816, Jane Austen, a letter:Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.
* Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
* (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
** 1997, Michael B. Smith, “§ 4.7”, in Quirky Case in Icelandic:We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

#### Synonyms

* (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

#### Derived terms

* acute mountain sickness
* African horse sickness
* African sleeping sickness
* altitude sickness
* bleeding sickness
* bottle-sickness
* car sickness
* claw sickness
* covering sickness
* dative sickness
* decompression sickness
* dope sickness
* falling-sickness
* falling sickness
* ghost sickness
* grass sickness
* green-sickness
* green sickness
* green tobacco sickness
* homesickness
* home-sickness
* horse sickness
* hurry sickness
* in sickness and in health
* irradiation sickness
* Jamaican vomiting sickness
* junk sickness
* lame sickness
* land sickness
* laughing sickness
* milk sickness
* morning sickness
* motion sickness
* mountain sickness
* nail sickness
* needle sickness
* Numinbah horse sickness
* ozone sickness
* Picardy seating sickness
* pregnancy sickness
* princess sickness
* radiation sickness
* sea-sickness
* serum sickness
* sickness unto death
* simulator sickness
* sleeping sickness
* sleepy sickness
* space sickness
* stiff sickness
* sugar sickness
* summoning sickness
* sweating sickness
* swing sickness
* three day sickness
* three-day sickness
* train sickness
* travel sickness
* wasting sickness
* water sickness

#### Translations

Afrikaans: siekte (af)
Ainu: タスㇺ (tasum)
Apache:
Western Apache: kah naghaa
Arabic: مَرَض (ar) m (maraḍ)
Armenian: հիվանդություն (hy) (hivandutʻyun)
Old Armenian: հիւանդութիւն (hiwandutʻiwn), ախտ (axt)
Aromanian: lãngoari f
Asturian: enfermedá (ast)
Azerbaijani: xəstəlik (az)
Bulgarian: болест (bg) f (bolest)
Catalan: malaltia (ca) f
Cherokee: ᎥᏳᎩ (vyugi)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 疾病 (zh) (jíbìng)
Czech: nemoc (cs) f
Dutch: ziekte (nl) f
Egyptian: (mrt)
Even: энэк (ənək)
Evenki: энумук (ənumuk)
Eyak: k'ahd
Finnish: sairaus (fi)
French: maladie (fr) f
Galician: doenza (gl) f
German: Krankheit (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (sauhts), 𐍃𐌹𐌿𐌺𐌴𐌹 f (siukei)
Greek: ασθένεια (el) f (asthéneia)
Ancient: νόσος f (nósos)
Ionic: νοῦσος f (noûsos)
Haitian Creole: maladi
Hungarian: betegség (hu), megbetegedés (hu)
Hunsrik: Krankheed f, Krankheid f
Ingrian: tauti, läsy, topi (dialectal)
Irish: tinneas (ga) m, othras m, galar (ga) m
Japanese: 病 (ja) (yamai), 病気 (ja) (byōki)
Korean: 질병 (ko) (jilbyeong)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نەخۆشی (nexoşî)
Latin: morbus (la) m, aegror m, aegritudo f
Maori: māruru
Navajo: tsʼííh niidóóh
Northwestern Ojibwa: aakoziwin
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sykdom (no) m, sjukdom (no) m
Nynorsk: sjukdom m
Occitan: malautiá (oc) f
Odia: ବେମାର (or) (bemāra), ବେମାର (or) (bemāra)
Ottoman Turkish: خسته‌لق (hastalık), مرض (maraz)
Plautdietsch: Krankheit f
Polish: choroba (pl) f
Portuguese: doença (pt) f
Quechua: unquy
Romanian: maladie (ro) f, boală (ro) f
Russian: боле́знь (ru) f (boléznʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: galar m, tinneas m, euslaint f
Serbo-Croatian: bolest (sh) f
Slovene: bolézen (sl) f
Spanish: enfermedad (es), dolencia (es) f
Swahili: ugonjwa (sw)
Tagalog: sakit (tl)
Taos: hə́olene
Telugu: రోగము (te) (rōgamu), వ్యాధి (te) (vyādhi)
Tocharian B: teki
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎗𐎕 (mrṣ)
Ukrainian: хворо́ба (uk) f (xvoróba) :
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### References

* “sickness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.