What is another word for illness?
375 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈɪlnəs], [ ˈɪlnəs], [ ˈɪ_l_n_ə_s]
When it comes to talking about illness, there are many synonyms that we can use. Some of these include disease, ailment, disorder, affliction, malady, sickness, infection, and disorder. Each of these words can be used to describe a wide range of health conditions, from minor illnesses like the common cold or a headache to more serious conditions like cancer or heart disease. Using synonyms for the word illness can help to add variety to our language and communicate our thoughts and feelings about our health in a more nuanced way. It can also help to avoid repetition and keep our writing or conversations interesting and engaging.
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Similar words for illness:
- affliction (noun)
- ailment (noun)
- contagion (noun)
- damage (noun)
- disease (noun)
- disease; bad health (noun)
- distemper (noun)
- gripe (noun)
- ill (noun)
- indisposition (noun)
- injury, loss (noun)
- malaise (noun)
- pain (noun)
- sickness (noun)
- state (noun)
- upset (noun)
- virus (noun)
- discharge (verb)
- disability
- dyspepsia
- illness
- indigestion
- injury
- noun
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Illness:
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n.
• affliction- dis order ,
- dis orders ,
- dis tress ,
- dis tresses ,
- dis-order ,
- dis-orders ,
- dis-tress ,
- dis-tresses ,
- mis fortune ,
- mis fortunes ,
- mis-fortune ,
- mis-fortunes .
- flus .
- Sickliness ,
- ague ,
- apoplexy ,
- breakdown ,
- bug ,
- collapse ,
- complaint ,
- complication ,
- condition ,
- curse ,
- debility ,
- decrepitude ,
- disability ,
- disorder ,
- fever ,
- feverishness ,
- handicap ,
- indisposition ,
- infection ,
- infliction ,
- malady ,
- nausea ,
- pestilence ,
- spasm ,
- symptom ,
- syndrome ,
- unhealthiness .
- badnesses ,
- in juries ,
- in jury ,
- in-jury ,
- un pleasantness ,
- un pleasantnesses ,
- un-pleasantness ,
- un-pleasantnesses .
- dis inclination ,
- dis inclinations ,
- dis-inclination ,
- dis-inclinations ,
- in disposition ,
- in dispositions ,
- in-disposition ,
- in-dispositions ,
- un willingness ,
- un willingnesses ,
- un-willingness ,
- un-willingnesses .
- dis comfort ,
- dis comforts ,
- dis quiet ,
- dis quiets ,
- dis-comfort ,
- dis-comforts ,
- dis-quiet ,
- dis-quiets ,
- in firmness ,
- in firmnesses ,
- in-firmness ,
- in-firmnesses ,
- infirmnesses ,
- un ease ,
- un eases ,
- un easiness ,
- un-ease ,
- un-eases ,
- un-easiness ,
- un-easinesses .
- diseasednesses ,
- queasinesses ,
- un health ,
- un healthfulness ,
- un healthfulnesses ,
- un healths ,
- un wellness ,
- un wellnesses ,
- un-health ,
- un-healthfulness ,
- un-healthfulnesses ,
- un-healths ,
- un-wellness ,
- un-wellnesses ,
- unhealthfulnesses ,
- unhealths ,
- unwellnesses .
- de feat ,
- de feats ,
- de-feat ,
- de-feats ,
- free for all ,
- over throw ,
- over throws ,
- over-throw ,
- over-throws ,
- re version ,
- re versions ,
- re-version ,
- re-versions ,
- screw ups ,
- screw-ups ,
- shake ups ,
- shake-ups ,
- sub version ,
- sub versions ,
- sub-version ,
- sub-versions ,
- sur prise ,
- sur prises ,
- sur-prise ,
- sur-prises ,
- up sets ,
- up-set ,
- up-sets .
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v.
• discharge Other synonyms:
- STD ,
- STI ,
- constipation ,
- deformity ,
- dysfunction ,
- hangover ,
- incapacity ,
- incidence ,
- insanity ,
- insufficiency ,
- malformation ,
- mental illness ,
- pandemic ,
- plague .
- affliction ,
- breakout ,
- disturbance ,
- epidemic ,
- relapse ,
- shock ,
- spell ,
- upset .
- ill .
- case .
Other relevant words:
- Acute Disease ,
- Chronic Disease ,
- Distemperature ,
- Iatrogenic Disease ,
- Morbosity ,
- Muscular Disease ,
- Rockiness ,
- Sickishness ,
- Symptomatology ,
- Urogenital Disease ,
- Valetudinary ,
- Virus Disease ,
- abhor ,
- abnormality ,
- abominate ,
- accusation ,
- addiction ,
- affection ,
- ail ,
- ailing ,
- allergic disease ,
- allergy ,
- amyloidosis ,
- anuria ,
- anuric ,
- appall ,
- assault ,
- atrophy ,
- bacterial disease ,
- bad ,
- bad luck ,
- banal ,
- be ill ,
- bedridden ,
- birth defect ,
- blight ,
- break ,
- cardiovascular disease ,
- chill ,
- circulatory disease ,
- clutter ,
- commonplace ,
- confined ,
- confinement ,
- congenital defect ,
- consumption ,
- cough ,
- decline ,
- decompression sickness ,
- deface ,
- defect ,
- deficiency disease ,
- degenerative disease ,
- delicacy ,
- despise ,
- detest ,
- difficult ,
- disable ,
- disarray ,
- diseased ,
- disfigure ,
- disgust ,
- displease ,
- distemper ,
- distressed ,
- endemic ,
- endemic disease ,
- endocrine disease ,
- epidemic disease ,
- excess ,
- excrescent ,
- execrate ,
- fall ill ,
- fit ,
- flare-up ,
- flu ,
- frailness ,
- functional disease ,
- gastrointestinal disease ,
- genetic disease ,
- germ ,
- get sick ,
- grieve ,
- grievous ,
- hackneyed ,
- hard ,
- harrowing ,
- hate ,
- hereditary disease ,
- hopeless ,
- hypochondria ,
- ill health ,
- ill timed ,
- illnesses ,
- in hospital ,
- inadequate ,
- incompetent ,
- indisposed ,
- ineffective ,
- ineffectual ,
- inefficient ,
- inept ,
- infectious disease ,
- injure ,
- invalided ,
- invalidism ,
- jaundice ,
- laid up ,
- loathe ,
- maim ,
- malnutrition ,
- microbe ,
- morbidity ,
- morbidness ,
- morbus ,
- murrain ,
- mutilate ,
- needless ,
- neurological disease ,
- occupational disease ,
- offend ,
- organic disease ,
- out of health ,
- painful ,
- pathological condition ,
- pathology ,
- pip ,
- plant disease ,
- poorly ,
- prostration ,
- respiratory disease ,
- scandalise ,
- scandalize ,
- seediness ,
- seedy ,
- sharp ,
- sick ,
- sign ,
- signs ,
- sore ,
- spoil ,
- squeamish ,
- stroke ,
- superfluous ,
- symptomology ,
- symptoms ,
- taint ,
- threadbare ,
- tired ,
- trite ,
- trouble ,
- under the weather ,
- unsoundness ,
- unwell ,
- unwellness ,
- vitiate ,
- wasting disease ,
- weakness ,
- wickedness .
- cold .
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How to use "Illness" in context?
When we think of illness, the first thing that might come to mind is the flu. However, illness can come in many different shapes and forms. In this article, we will be discussing some different types of illness and how to deal with them.
Paraphrases for Illness:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
sickness.
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Symbol
sickness.
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Verb, past tense
Diseases.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
diabetes.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
cheers, troubles, problems, sensitivities, stressors.
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Noun, singular or mass
affection, affliction, data, degeneration, dementia, discomfort, epidemic, malaise, malaria, outbreak, schizophrenia, strife, sufferer, tuberculosis, uneasiness, unrest, cheers, maladie.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
Hyponym for Illness:
n.
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state
ill health, health problem, unhealthiness.
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state
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