sickness | Definition of sickness

Synonyms and Antonyms of sickness

1 the condition of not being in good health

she was plagued by sickness most of her adult life

Synonyms of sickness

illness, indisposition, unhealthiness, unsoundness

Words Related to sickness

malaise, sickishness

affliction, ailment, condition, disease, disorder, dysfunction (also disfunction), malady, trouble, upset

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, invalidism, invalidity, lameness, sickliness, weakliness, weakness

Near Antonyms of sickness

comeback, convalescence, healing, mending, rally, recovery, recuperation, rehab, rehabilitation, snapback

fettle, fitness, shape

hardiness, heartiness, lustiness, robustness, ruggedness, stamina, strength, toughness, vigor, vigorousness, vitality

bloom, flush, flushness

weal, welfare, well-being

Antonyms of sickness

health, healthiness, soundness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness

2 an abnormal state that disrupts a plant or animal's normal bodily functioning

a sickness that resulted in the death of millions of the nation's elm trees

Synonyms of sickness

affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, malady, trouble

Words Related to sickness

contagion, contagious disease

contagium, infection

attack, bout, fit, spell

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, lameness, sickliness, unhealthiness, unsoundness, unwellness, weakness

malaise, matter, pip

epidemic, pest, pestilence, plague

Near Antonyms of sickness

fitness, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, soundness, wholeness, wholesomeness

Antonyms of sickness

health, wellness

3 a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting

the sickness that many women feel during the early months of a pregnancy

Synonyms of sickness

nausea, nauseousness, qualmishness, queasiness, queerness, squeamishness

Words Related to sickness

airsickness, altitude sickness, car sickness, morning sickness, motion sickness, mountain sickness, seasickness