Translate sickness | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of sickness
noun
1the state of being ill:she was absent through sickness [often with adjective or noun modifier] a particular type of illness or disease:botulism causes fodder sickness of horses a woman suffering an incurable sickness
2the feeling or fact of being affected with nausea or vomiting:she felt a wave of sickness wash over her travel sickness