1 [U] illness; bad health:
She's been off work because of sickness. * insurance against sickness and unemployment
2 [U,C,usually sing.] a particular type of illness or disease:
altitude / travel / radiation sickness * a sickness common in the tropics
seealsoSLEEPINGSICKNESS
3 [U] (especially BrE) the feeling that you are likely to VOMIT (= bring food back up from the stomach to the mouth); the fact of VOMITING:
symptoms include sickness and diarrhoea * The sickness passed off after a while.
seealsoMORNINGSICKNESS
4 [sing.] a feeling of great sadness, disappointment or disgust:
He felt a sickness rise in him at the thought of leaving.
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