illness
IPA: ˈɪɫnʌs
noun
- (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
- (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
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Examples of "illness" in Sentences
- The illness was grave and infectious.
- Olfaction deficits and prediction of mental illness or disease.
- There should be mental illness laws against this sick debauchery in the world.
- Your illness is a threat to society, and here we take that sort of threat very seriously.
- Things are beginning to look very black against him, and I am convinced his illness is all a sham.
- Both Meirelles and author Saramago have stated that the title illness is not meant to be taken literally.
- Along with the addiction is the mental illness, systemic poverty, scary lack of parenting skills, and *illness*.
- So far, the only manifestation of his illness is the fact that he says whatever the hell is on his mind, with no filter.
- Such people will now require much more expensive treatment, since they only see a doctor once their illness is at emergency-room-stage.
- I feared madness, not sickness -- I have a presentiment that Adrian will not die; perhaps this illness is a crisis, and he may recover.
- Often the illness is as much physical as mental - manic depression which I know quite a bit about is basically caused by a chemical imbalance (shortage of lithium) ...
- The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze.
- The first signs of this illness is the vomit itself and symptoms so mortal and expeditious, that many die on the first day; others, on the second or third; it being rare that any escape; nor have the study and effort of many doctors and surgeons, of the fleets or shore, [who have] examined this disease with great diligence, been able to find any medicine to prevent or cure it. 68