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What is the noun for sickly?

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sickness
  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.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. illness, disease, ailment, infirmity, disorder, malady, complaint, condition, affliction, indisposition, bug, infection, complication, affection, trouble, distemper, ail, virus, distemperature, ill, fever, lurgy, syndrome, unhealthiness, diseasedness, unsoundness, unhealth, unwellness, unhealthfulness, ill health, bad health, malaise, debility, weakness, upset, disability, problem, sickliness, flu, feebleness, defect, blight, contagion, decrepitude, poor health, attack, fragility, delicacy, frailty, evil … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “I blamed my father for not finding more doctors to cure her sickness, and I blamed myself for not telling her I loved her more often.”
      “Just as she closed the door she felt a wave of sickness wash over her.”
      “The soldiers packed in the boats suffered cramps from sitting long hours or sickness from the motion of the boats.”
sickbed
  1. A bed used by a person who is sick.
  2. A place for convalescence.
  3. Examples:
      4. “One widow vowed that if her daughter recovered from her sickbed, the girl would take the veil as a nun.”
      “On Wednesday, I hauled myself off my sickbed, took a lot of drugs and got on the train to Edinburgh.”
      “And then yesterday I retired to my sickbed, feeling decidedly under the weather, and am still not on top form today.”
sick
  1. Sick people in general as a group.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) vomit.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. vomit, puke, bile, barf, vomitus, spew, ejecta, chunder, upchuck, purge, parbreak, pavement pizza, liquid laugh, technicolor yawn … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “A dog was examining a pile of sick.”
sickliness
  1. The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unwellness, poorliness, ropiness, seediness, illness, sickness, indisposition, unsoundness, unhealthiness, disorder, condition, complaint, ailment, malady, affliction, infection, plague, upset, infirmity, disease, blight, trouble, bug, canker, cancer, disability, defect, contagion, affection, abnormality, evil, ail, lurgy, epidemic, ill, complication, virus, decrepitude, pestilence, scourge, debility, problem, bane, endemic, pathosis, ache, distemper, curse, fever, syndrome … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It was well worth venturing out in spite of my lingering sickliness.”
      “The impact of interest-rate cuts is blunted by the sickliness of banks, the link between central-bank policy and the wider economy.”
      “I think we're about to suffer a bout of morning sickliness I watched the final 15 minutes of GMTV yesterday.”
sickling
  1. The deformation of red blood cells into an abnormal crescent shape.
sickout
  1. A labor action where employees refuse to work claiming they are sick.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. blue flu, slowdown, job action, sick-in
  3. Examples:
      4. “It is estimated about 20 percent of the district's 1,300 custodians, cafeteria workers, secretaries and library workers took part in the sickout.”
      “The state attorney general, however, chose not to take action against union members following a similar sickout in January over poor school conditions, which labor experts said could be considered a method of strike.”
      “The Detroit Teachers Federation called for a mass sickout after the school district's management announced over the weekend that it would not be able to pay teachers in the summer.”
sickhouse
  1. A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. infirmary, clinic, sanatorium, hospice, institution, ward, surgery, sickbay, sanitarium, lazaretto, hospital, sick bay, health service, nursing home, convalescent home, rest home, medical centre, base hospital, cottage hospital, emergency room, field hospital, health centre, healthcare provider, medical institution, sickroom, dispensary, facility, spa, asylum, isolation ward, health resort, medical wing, medical center, lazaret, establishment, public house, eldercare, hotel, retreat, sick berth, hostel, residential home, shelter, refuge, retirement home, Elderhostel, home, polyclinic, doctor's, assisted living … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.”
sickishness
  1. The quality of being sickish.
sicklinesses
  1. plural of sickliness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unwellness, poorliness, ropiness, seedinesses, illnesses, sicknesses, indispositions, unsoundnesses, unhealthinesses, disorders, complaints, conditions, maladies, ailments, afflictions, infections, plagues, infirmities, upsets, diseases, blights, troubles, bugs, cankers, cancers, ails, evils, abnormalities, affections, defects, contagions, disabilities, decrepitudes, scourges, viri, pestilences, lurgies, ills, complications, epidemics, debilities, contaminations, distempers, pathoses, aches, curses, fevers, syndromes, endemics, problemata … more
sickhouses
  1. plural of sickhouse
  2. Synonyms:
      3. infirmaries, sickbays, hospitals, health centres, clinics, emergency rooms, sanitariums, wards, institutions, lazarettos, cottage hospitals, base hospitals, sick bays, sanatoriums, health services, field hospitals, hospice, nursing homes, rest homes, surgery, sickrooms, dispensaries, asylums, spas, facilities, health centers, lazarets, consulting rooms, polyclinics, retreats, children's homes, homes, shelters, eldercare, refuge, public houses, assisted livings, establishment, hotels, retirement homes, hostels … more
sicklings
  1. plural of sickling
sicknesses
  1. plural of sickness
  2. Synonyms:
      3. illnesses, diseases, ailments, infirmities, disorders, maladies, complaints, conditions, afflictions, indispositions, bugs, infections, complications, affections, troubles, distempers, ails, viri, distemperatures, ills, fevers, lurgies, syndromes, unhealthinesses, diseasedness, unsoundnesses, unhealths, unwellness, unhealthfulness, ill health, malaises, debilities, weaknesses, upsets, disabilities, contagions, problemata, sicklinesses, flus, plagues, feeblenesses, defects, blights, decrepitudes, pestilences, scourges, epidemics, attacks, fragilities, delicacies … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “And you find you can't eliminate all the pests in the world, nor can you eliminate the pests in your own body, like cancers and other sicknesses.”
      “During the conflict, frostbite, sun-burn, and other high-altitude sicknesses caused large numbers of casualties.”
      “Between bearing children and enduring lingering sicknesses, Susanna was unable to do much to supplement his income.”
sickbeds
  1. plural of sickbed
sickouts
  1. plural of sickout
  2. Synonyms:
      3. blue flu, slowdowns, job actions
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