sickness

Plural: sicknesses

Noun

• The state of being ill; a particular disease or ailment.
• impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
• defectiveness or unsoundness
  • "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"
  • "a great sickness of his judgment"
• the state that precedes vomiting
• The quality or state of being sick or diseased; 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.

Examples

• A sudden sickness of strategy can cost a player the entire Words With Friends game.

Synonyms

illness, malady, nausea, unwellness, disease, infirmity

Antonyms

wellness