The difference between Illness and Sickness
When used as nouns, illness means an instance of a disease or poor health, whereas sickness means the quality or state of being sick or diseased.
check bellow for the other definitions of Illness and Sickness
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Illness as a noun (countable):
An instance of a disease or poor health.
Examples:
"Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness."
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Illness as a noun (uncountable):
A state of bad health or disease.
Examples:
"Many working days this year have been lost through illness."
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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.