ILLNESS

illness. Illness, n. sickness, disorder, weakness, folly, vice

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Ill″ness (?), n. [[From Ill.]] 1. 1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. “The illness of the weather.” Locke.
2. 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
3. 3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. Shak.
Syn. — Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment. — Illness, Sickness. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or “sickness of the stomach.”