sickness

Other forms of sickness

plural

sicknesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sickness

What does sickness mean?

sickness means "impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sickness?

sickness has 2 syllables: sick-ness. The stress falls on "sick". In IPA it is /ˈsɪknəs/.

What is another word for sickness?

Close synonyms include illness, unwellness, malady, nausea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sickness a common word?

sickness is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sickness?

1 word rhymes with sickness. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.