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illness

noun
/ˈɪl.nəs/

Etymology

From ill + -ness.

  1. derived from *h₁elḱ-✻
  2. derived from *ilhilaz✻
  3. derived from íllr
  4. inherited from ille
  5. formed as illness — “ill + -ness”

Definitions

  1. 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

  2. A state of bad health or disease.

    • Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
    • 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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Derived

accelerated critical illness, chronic illness, critical illness, final illness, folk illness, foodborne illness, food-derived illness, Gulf War illness, illnesslike, mental illness, nonillness, postorgasmic illness syndrome, seroconversion illness, terminal illness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at illness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at illness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at illness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA