sickness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   defectiveness or unsoundness

   drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure

2. 2
   noun

   The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   I do lament the sickness of the king.

3. 3
   noun

   The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

   We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

4. 4
   noun

   impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

5. 5
   noun

   the state that precedes vomiting

6. 6
   noun

   Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

Etymology

From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.