The difference between Disease and Sickness

When used as nouns, disease means an abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction, whereas sickness means the quality or state of being sick or diseased.


Disease is also verb with the meaning: to cause unease.

check bellow for the other definitions of Disease and Sickness

  1. Disease as a noun (pathology):

    An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

    Examples:

    "The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered."

  2. Disease as a noun (by extension):

    Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.

  3. Disease as a noun:

    Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.

  1. Disease as a verb (obsolete):

    To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.

  2. Disease as a verb:

    To infect with a disease.

  1. Sickness as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "I do lament the sickness of the king.'' -[[w:William Shakespeare William Shakespeare]]"

    "Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.'' -[[w:Alexander Pope Alexander Pope]]."

    "Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.'' -[[w:Jane AustJane Austen]]."

  2. Sickness as a noun:

    Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

  3. Sickness as a noun (linguistics):

    The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

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