Sickness
WordNet
noun
(1) Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
(2) The state that precedes vomiting
(3) Defectiveness or unsoundness
"Drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"
"A great sickness of his judgment"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
- I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare
- Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.