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
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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."
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Disease as a noun (by extension):
Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
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Disease as a noun:
Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
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Disease as a verb (obsolete):
To cause unease; to annoy, irritate.
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Disease as a verb:
To infect with a disease.
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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]]."
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Sickness as a noun:
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
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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.