sickness · Contextualize

Etymology

From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.

inherited from sēocnes
inherited from sikness

Definitions

1
The quality or state of being sick or diseased
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; an illness.
- I do lament the sickness of the king.
- 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
- Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life.
Nausea
Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3
The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common…
The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

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Derived

acute mountain sickness, African horse sickness, African sleeping sickness, airsickness, altitude sickness, bleeding sickness, bottle-sickness, bush sickness, car sickness, carsickness, claw sickness, covering sickness, cybersickness, dative sickness, decompression sickness, dope sickness, falling sickness, falling-sickness, gallsickness, ghost sickness, grass sickness, green sickness, green-sickness, green tobacco sickness, home-sickness, homesickness, horse sickness, hurry sickness, in sickness and in health, irradiation sickness, Jamaican vomiting sickness, junk sickness, lame sickness, land sickness, laughing sickness, leisure sickness, lungsickness, milk sickness, morning sickness, motion sickness · +32 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sickness. 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.

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

7 hops · closes at sickness

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