sickness
- 01 B1 Intermediate
the feeling that you are going to vomit.
a sensation of nausea or the act of vomiting. Often used in compound words like 'travel sickness' or 'sea sickness'.
Simple“The bumpy car ride gave the children a feeling of sickness.”
In context“She suffered from severe morning sickness during the first trimester, making it difficult to maintain her usual work schedule.”
Synonymsnauseaqueasiness - 02 C2 Proficiency
using a rare or difficult grammar form in the wrong place.
the analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in place of a more common or unmarked one.
Simple“The professor explained how certain language learners develop a sickness in their use of case endings.”
In context“The paper argues that the observed sickness in the dialect's case system is a result of prolonged contact with neighboring languages.”
UsageUsed specifically within the field of linguistics to describe certain types of morphological errors.
Teacher's tipThis is a highly specialized term in linguistics; general learners will never encounter it outside of academic study.
From Middle English sikness, from Old English sēocnes. By surface analysis, sick + -ness.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.