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- Dictionaryillness/ˈɪlnɪs/
noun
- 1. a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind: "he died after a long illness"
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1. a. : sickness sense 2. b. : an unhealthy condition of body or mind. 2. obsolete. a. : wickedness. b. : unpleasantness. Synonyms. affection. ailment. bug. complaint. complication. condition. disease. disorder. distemperature. fever. ill. infirmity. malady. sickness. trouble.
a condition in which the body or mind is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; a disease or sickness: [ U ] mental illness. [ C ] He died at home after a long illness. (Definition of illness from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of illness. illness.
a condition in which the body or mind is harmed because an organ or part is unable to work as it usually does; a disease or sickness: [ U ] mental illness. [ C ] He died at home after a long illness. (Definition of illness from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of illness. illness.
Illness definition: poor health; sickness. See examples of ILLNESS used in a sentence.
ILLNESS meaning: 1 : a condition of being unhealthy in your body or mind; 2 : a specific condition that prevents your body or mind from working normally a sickness or disease.
Illness is used to talk about both more severe and more minor medical problems, and, more commonly, those that affect mental health: heart/kidney/liver illness mental disease. Disease is not used about a period of illness: She died after a long disease.
Definition of illness noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [uncountable] the state of being physically or mentally ill. The virus can cause illness in humans. I missed a lot of school through illness last year.
