Added 9 October 2026
sickness
/ˈsɪknɪs/ noun
In Latin: morbus, aegror, aegritūdō Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about sickness at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case. (Can we verify this sense, particularly "Does this exist outside of the phrase dative sickness with reference to the Icelandic language?"?)
Origin
Inherited from Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes, sēocness, sēocnys, sēocnyss. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
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