What is the meaning of sickness?

noun

  • Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism.
  • Defectiveness or unsoundness.
    • usage: "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"
  • The state that precedes vomiting.
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