EGAVE

sickness

About 7.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
  2. noun Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  3. noun 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?"?)

Similar words

illness malady nausea sick malaise ailment diseased morbidity infirmity affliction

Often followed by

and or of in is was insurance that to

Word family

sicknesses

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