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illness

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English

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Etymology

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    From ill + -ness.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɪl.nəs/
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    • Rhymes: -ɪlnəs

    Noun

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    illness (countable and uncountable, plural illnesses)

    1. (countable) An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health.
      Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
      suffer form a severe illness
      a mild illness
      • 2022 May 7, Liang En Wee, Edwin Philip Conceicao, Jean Xiang-Ying Sim, May Kyawt Aung, Aung Myat Oo, et al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, →DOI:
        This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
    2. (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
      Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
      • 2012, Anne Westhues, Canadian Social Policy: Issues and Perspectives:
        Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.

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