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What is the noun for illness?

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ill
  1. (pluralize) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
  2. Harm or injury.
  3. Evil; moral wrongfulness.
  4. A physical ailment; an illness.
  5. (US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Haven't you brought a remedy that can cure me of this ill?”
      “The counterculture of the 1970s often gets blamed for every current social ill.”
      “Such kindhearted people wish ill on nobody, but wish everybody well.”
illness
  1. (countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
  2. (uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The focus is on the patient's response to the illness rather than on the illness itself.”
      “The Soldiers determined the boy's illness was serious enough to warrant hospitalization.”
      “Dr. D, a young psychiatrist living with bipolar illness, had just accepted a faculty position in town.”
illnesses
  1. plural of illness
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Long-term illnesses, such as diabetes, Parkinsons, or cancer, also may lead to depression.”
      “Californians face waterborne illnesses lurking in the surf from urban runoff, and towns have lost their drinking water due to contamination.”
      “Acute infectious illnesses are well-known antecedent events in two thirds of patients who suffer from the syndrome.”
ills
  1. plural of ill
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But it cannot fix the dynamic ills of decision-making within a coalition or the inevitable impact of power politics and party entrenchment.”
      “Much of the world's ills have little to do with the process of globalisation itself.”
      “It is clear that the capital is the fountainhead of the ills that plague the country.”
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