noun🔗ShareThe quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness."The sickness kept him from attending school for a week. "medicinediseaseconditionbodysensationsufferingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareNausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach."The student felt a sudden sickness in her stomach before the big exam. "medicinediseasebodysensationChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case."The student's use of the possessive pronoun "my" instead of "mine" in his essay was a minor sickness, but it still caught the teacher's eye. "grammarlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading