sickness

B1 · Intermediate Countable noun Medicine

n. a particular type of illness or disease.

n. a specific disease or malady, often named by its cause or symptoms.

“Sleeping sickness is a serious problem in some parts of the world.”

“Researchers are investigating whether this particular sickness is transmitted through contaminated water or airborne particles.”

B1 · Intermediate Uncountable noun

n. the feeling that you are going to vomit.

n. a sensation of nausea or stomach distress, often caused by motion or pregnancy.

“I always get motion sickness when I try to read in a moving car.”

“Morning sickness is a common experience during the first trimester of pregnancy, though its severity varies greatly between individuals.”

C2 · Proficiency Uncountable noun Medicine Technical

n. a mistake where a speaker uses a rare grammar form instead of a common one.

n. the analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in place of a more common or unmarked case.

“The linguist studied the case sickness in the child's speech patterns.”

“The paper argues that the observed sickness in the dative case is actually a predictable result of morphological simplification in dying languages.”