2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Illness \Ill"ness\, n. [From {Ill}.]
1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad badness;
unfavorableness. [Obs.] ``The illness of the weather.''
--Locke.
2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health;
sickness; as a short or a severe illness.
3. Wrong moral conduct; wickedness. --Shak.
Syn: Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment.
Usage: {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.''
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
illness
n : impairment of normal physiological function affecting part
or all of an organism [syn: {malady}, {sickness}]
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