'Illness' definitions:
Definition of 'illness'
From: WordNet
noun
Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness]
Definition of 'Illness'
From: GCIDE
- Illness \Ill"ness\, n. [From Ill.]
- 1. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] "The illness of the weather." --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness. [1913 Webster]
- 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." [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'illness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- addiction,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- bug,
- cardiovascular disease,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- disability,
- disease,
- disorder,
- distemper,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- hereditary disease,
- iatrogenic disease,
- indisposition,
- infectious disease,
- infirmity,
- malady,
- malaise,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- plant disease,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- respiratory disease,
- rockiness,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- the pip,
- urogenital disease,
- virus disease,
- wasting disease,
- worm disease
Words containing 'Illness'
- Ill,
- Ill will,
- Ill at ease,
- Ill blood,
- Ill breeding,
- Ill fame,
- Ill humor,
- Ill nature,
- Ill temper,
- Ill turn,
- Ill-will,
- In ill part,
- To go ill with,
- To hear ill,
- catastrophic illness,
- ill health,
- ill humour,
- ill luck,
- ill repute,
- ill service,
- ill-being,
- ill-off,
- looping ill,
- mental illness,
- mentally ill,
- respiratory illness,
- Ill-boding,
- Ill-bred,
- Ill-favored,
- Ill-favoredly,
- Ill-favoredness,
- Ill-favoured,
- Ill-judged,
- Ill-lived,
- Ill-looking,
- Ill-mannered,
- Ill-minded,
- Ill-natured,
- Ill-naturedly,
- Ill-naturedness,
- Ill-nurtured,
- Ill-omened,
- Ill-starred,
- Ill-tempered,
- Ill-timed,
- Ill-wisher,
- house of ill repute,
- ill-advised,
- ill-affected,
- ill-at-ease,
- ill-breeding,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-conceived,
- ill-considered,
- ill-defined,
- ill-dressed,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-famed,
- ill-fated,
- ill-fed,
- ill-fitting,
- ill-formed,
- ill-gotten,
- ill-health,
- ill-humor,
- ill-humored,
- ill-humoured,
- ill-nature,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-repute,
- ill-scented,
- ill-shapen,
- ill-smelling,
- ill-sorted,
- ill-suited,
- ill-treat,
- ill-treated,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- ill-used,
- ill-wind,
- manic depressive illness,
- persian gulf illness,
- crusty curmudgeonly gruff ill-humored ill-humoured,
- ill-sorted incompatible mismated unsuited,
- shirty snorty ill-tempered or annoyed,
- crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered