What does illness mean?
Illness means (countable) An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health..
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/ˈɪl.nəs/ · noun
(countable) An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health..
Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
suffer form a severe illness
a mild illness
This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.
Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.
Use illness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Illness means (countable) An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health..
Common synonyms include sickness, malady.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
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