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What does sickness mean?

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Noun
  1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
  2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
  3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
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A dirty bomb would boost the radiation level above normal levels, increasing the risk of cancer and radiation sickness to some degree.
Detonated in a densely populated city, it can kill thousands from radiation sickness and leave the area uninhabitable.
However, the civilians who were killed by the bomb and the survivors who developed radiation sickness left an unforgettable legacy of fear.
One way I justify my wanderlust is by calling it a form of travel sickness.
An increasing number of credible eyewitnesses testified to the unspeakable torment of radiation sickness.
Who cared if they got radiation sickness, as long as the ore was being mined?

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