sickness

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪknɪs/

Noun

sickness (uncountable)

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

   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.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7

     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.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being sick) disease, illness, infirmity, malady

Translations

• French: maladie
• German: Krankheit
• Portuguese: doença
• Russian: боле́знь
• Spanish: enfermedad, dolencia

Translations

• German: Übelkeit
• Russian: тошнота́

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