sicknessn.
/ˈsɪknɪs/ 1.
a. The state of being sick or ill; the condition of suffering from some malady; illness, ill-health.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]
unhealc700
untrumnessc897
adleeOE
sicknessc967
cothec1000
unhealthc1000
woe?a1200
ail?c1225
lying?c1225
maladyc1275
unsoundc1275
feebless1297
languora1375
languishc1384
disease1393
aegritudea1400
lamea1400
maleasea1400
soughta1400
wilc1400
malefaction?a1425
firmityc1426
unwholesomenessc1449
ill1450
languenta1500
distemperancea1535
the valley of the shadow of death1535
affect?1537
affection?1541
distemperature1541
inability1547
sickliness1565
languishment1576
cause1578
unhealthfulness1589
crazedness1593
languorment1593
evilness1599
strickenness1599
craziness1602
distemper1604
unsoundness1605
invaletude1623
unhealthiness1634
achaque1647
unwellness1653
disailment1657
insalubrity1668
faintiness1683
queerness1687
invalidity1690
illness1692
ill health1698
ailment1708
illing1719
invalescence1724
peakingness1727
sickishness1727
valetudinariness1742
ailingness1776
brash1786
invalidism1794
poorliness1814
diseasement1826
invalidship1830
valetudinarianism1839
ailing1862
invalidhood1863
megrims1870
pourriture1890
immersement1903
bug1918
condition1920
α.
β. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 142 Al oðer hwat. ase secnesse & oðer hwat.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 95 Wyþoute steruinge and wyþoute zyknesse and wyþ-oute ealdinge.a1400 Sir Beues 3918 While Saber lai in is siknesse.1412 26 Pol. Poems xi. 90 Myn enemys y shal..Ȝeue syknes and drede.1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Bvv Which..whan we be in sickenesse, is our medicine and helth.1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxxxv He is troubled with syckenes.a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 178 Noble Anthony, not sickenesse should detaine me. View more context for this quotation1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 162 When he falleth into sicknesse by the doing of some unlawfull act.1712 A. Pope To Young Lady in Misc. Poems 141 Those, Age or Sickness, soon or late, disarms.1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. I. 27 Pangs..occasioned by lingering sickness.1804 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 451 To whom I owe that my bed of sickness has not been in a house of want.1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 45 A languor came Upon him, gentle sickness.γ. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 2 Idel was I neuere..in sikenesse ne in helthe.a1400 Sir Beues 3900 In grete Grese..Saber gret sikenesse tok.c1450 Godstow Reg. 404 To which-so-ever she wold..assigne hit in helth or in sikenesse.?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Aiiv Wt sykenesse they dye nat.c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 140 Toke such a thought and sykenes that he dyed thereof.c967 Canons Edgar §36 We lærað þæt ænig unfæstende man husles ne abirige, buton hit for ofer-seocnesse sy.
a1023 Wulfstan Homilies xliii. 209 Þæt god wolde..heo mid mislicre seocnesse æt mannum genyman.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9632 Octa iherde suggen of seoc-nesse þas kinges.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 1025 Sekenes suld he neuer drei.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 775 God sente on him sekenesse & care.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 128 Sche hath seknesse feigned.
c1450 J. Metham Days Moon (Garrett) in Wks. (1916) 155 Yff man or woman take sekenes that day, thei schuld sone recouer.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 §1 To provide..for the helth of man's body whan infirmities and secknes shalhappen.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 357 Personis that..takis seiknes in thair Hienessis army.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Seekness, sickness.
b. transferred and figurative.
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter 494 Adam þat broght me in seknes of ded.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 23 Disciplis of Anti~crist agreggen þe siiknesse of þer folk.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) vii. sig. Biiv/2 They..deye by longe contynuaunce of ghostli siknesse.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 202 Wyth fastynge is sawid the Sekenys of body, and wyth Prayere the Sekenesse of Sowle.
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. ii. sig. K2 Looke vpon my steddinesse, and scorne not The sicknesse of my fortune.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iv. 185 For if a depraved Temper be, as it were, the Sickness of the Soul.
1721 E. Young Revenge ii. i I urg'd him to it, Knowing the deadly sickness of his heart.
2.
a. A particular disease or malady.Also frequently with defining terms, as falling-sickness, green-sickness, horse-sickness, joint-sickness, seasickness.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]
soreOE
cothec1000
sicknessc1000
evilc1275
maladyc1275
grievance1377
passiona1382
infirmityc1384
mischiefa1387
affectiona1398
grievinga1398
grief1398
sicka1400
case?a1425
plaguec1425
diseasea1475
alteration1533
craze1534
uncome1538
impediment1542
affliction?1555
ailment1606
disaster1614
garget1615
morbus1630
ail1648
disaffect1683
disorder1690
illness1692
trouble1726
complaint1727
skookum1838
claim1898
itis1909
bug1918
wog1925
crud1932
bot1937
lurgy1947
Korean haemorrhagic fever1951
nadger1956
α.
β. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 132 Þe bischop thomas lay, In þe syknesse of maldeflanke.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John v. 4 He..was maad hool of what euere siknesse he was holdun.1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxv. 149 There is noo syknes but that som socours is gyuen therunto.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxxii Every man iudged as he thought, and named a sickenes that he knew.1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 51v It is then good for Sciaticus, & other colde sickennesses of the ioyntes.1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) iv. 75 The healing of a sicnesse by a Physician.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 The Causes..Of ev'ry Sickness that infects the Fold. View more context for this quotation1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 199 The Nature of the Sickness will scarce suffer the Patient to remove for the Benefit of the Air.1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xii. 258 One of those sicknesses of childhood which come and pass away.γ. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 64 (Kölbing) Sone after,..A gret sikenes þe king him toke.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. viii. 17 He toke oure infirmytees, and bere oure sykenessis.c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 35 Þan owe þe leche..bisily biholde wiþin, and considere if þe sikenes be mortified.1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 194/2 Saint Roke we sette to se to the great sykenes, bycause he had a sore.1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 24 The ix. day of the same monyth [July, 1551] beganne the gret sykenes callyd the swetth.c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 126 Þanne ys god þæt mann fore-sceawie hwanne seo seocnysse sig.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 103 Þe þrid day of Aduent..Þe kyng a seknes hent.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xi. 44 He was made hale, what sekenes so he had.
1486 Bk. St. Albans a ij To vnderstonde theyr sekeneses and enfirmitees.
1526 Grete Herball cxxii. sig. Hiiv/2 Agaynst sekenesses of the mylt as Plinius sayth.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 5 That sair seiknes, named the sueit of Britannie, cam nevir till ws.
b. figurative.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 16 Þanne is hit [pride] þe meste periluse ziknesse.
c1400 Rom. Rose 2644 If evere thou knewe of love distresse, Thou shalt mowe lerne in that siiknesse.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 65 Þe venemus seyknes of lust.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 266 A paralous seiknes is vane prosperite.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. i. 28 A kinde of Will or Testament Which argues a great sicknesse in his iudgement That makes it. View more context for this quotation
1719 E. Young Busiris iii. 32 I..feel a deadly Sickness at my Heart.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 11 His was one of the robust and incisive constitutions, to which doubt figures as a sickness.
c. A defect in wines. (Cf. sick adj. 7.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [noun] > defect
sickness1674
1674 W. Charleton (title) Mysterie of Vintners, or a brief Discourse concerning the various Sicknesses of Wines.
d. A disease in sheep; braxy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep
pocka1325
soughta1400
pox1530
mad1573
winter rot1577
snuffa1585
leaf1587
leaf-sickness1614
redwater1614
mentigo1706
tag1736
white water1743
hog pox1749
rickets1755
side-ill1776
resp1789
sheep-fag1789
thorter-ill1791
vanquish1792
smallpox1793
shell-sicknessc1794
sickness1794
grass-ill1795
rub1800
pine1804
pining1804
sheep-pock1804
stinking ill1807
water sickness1807
core1818
wryneck1819
tag-belt1826
tag-sore1828
kibe1830
agalaxia1894
agalactia1897
lupinosis1899
trembling1902
struck1903
black disease1906
scrapie1910
renguerra1917
pulpy kidney1927
dopiness1932
blowfly strike1933
body strike1934
sleepy sickness1937
swayback1938
twin lamb disease1945
tick pyaemia1946
fly-strike1950
maedi1952
nematodiriasis1957
visna1957
maedi-visna1972
visna-maedi1972
1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 4 Of these, what is called the sickness, is generally the most common and the most fatal.
1822 W. J. Napier Pract. Store-farming 58 The sickness or braxy has been very fatal in many parts of this country.
1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 78 in Farm-rep. An inflammatory disease of the stomach, called ‘sickness’, or ‘braxy’.
3. A disturbance of the stomach manifesting itself in retching and vomiting.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea
wlatingc725
unlusteOE
abominationa1398
flatingnessa1398
indignation1398
wambling1398
wlatness1398
nausea?a1425
walmingc1440
loathsomeness1536
qualming1565
subversion of the stomach1569
queasiness1576
pukishness1581
squeamishnessa1586
distaste1598
nausiness1598
wamble1603
sickness1604
distasting1605
distasture1611
nauseation1628
nauseousness1628
qualmishness1643
nauseating1651
crop-sickness1654
squeasinessa1660
mawkishness1670
qualminess1778
wambliness1900
icky1969
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. ix. 145 The sicknes of the sea, wherewith such are troubled as first begin to go to sea, is a matter very ordinarie.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 306 Sickness..is one of the most troublesome Symptoms attending a Fever.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 248 I was too much engrossed by the sickness at my stomach, to think of any thing else.
1821 T. Moore Mem. (1853) III. 209 Bessy had been obliged to go to bed from sickness of stomach and head.
1889 D. J. Matthews Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 4) xviii. 149 You have here then..sickness, or sickness and vomiting if the pain is severe.
4. figurative. Utter disgust or weariness.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > extreme
sickness1779
wearifulness1838
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [noun]
irksomeness1435
tediousness1482
fie?1550
heart-scald1628
disgustion1659
squeasinessa1660
sickness1779
1779 F. Burney Let. 13 June in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 305 His sickness of the World..grows more & more obvious..every day.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 386/2 When the spirit is sore fretted, even tired to sickness of the janglings..of the world.
5. Sickly hue.
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the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] > paleness
bleachc1050
palenessc1350
wanness1382
pallorc1400
whiteness?c1425
palea1547
lightness1552
albescence1742
sickness1849
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 45 The green and yellow sickness of the false marble.
Compounds
attributive, as sickness allowance, sickness benefit, sickness-fund, sickness insurance, sickness repentance, sickness summer, sickness year.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > benefit provided by state > specific
sick(ness benefit1875
disability benefit1886
sickness allowance1891
maternity benefit1911
sickness insurance1911
unemployment benefit1933
food stamp1939
attendance allowance1969
unemployment1976
Jobseeker's Allowance1993
1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 17 The foregoing Discourse I wrote in the Sickness-Summer at my Country-Habitation.
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen Pref. sig. A3v The late great sickness year 1665.
1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home iii. 12 Sickness-repentance will not be enough.
1891 Daily News 28 Jan. 7/1 The altered term of sickness allowance.
1891 Daily News 28 Jan. 7/1 The plaintiff's sickness benefit was liable to immediate cessation.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. July 438/1 All workers..are compelled to contribute a weekly sum to the State sickness-fund.
1911 Q. Rev. July 209 Sickness-insurance.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 745 This sickness insurance provides that if you are sick for ten days or more you are paid at the end of the tenth day and the three waiting days at the beginning are included.
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