English-French translations for sickness

• maladie
  Les taux de maladie ont enregistré des hausses considérables. Rates of sickness have increased dramatically.
  La maladie de Chagas l’est moins, tout comme la maladie du sommeil et la leishmaniose. Less well known are Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis.
  Chercher à préserver son identité n'est pas une maladie. Wanting to preserve one's identity is not a sickness.
• infirmité
  Je salue en outre l'initiative de notre collègue car son rapport a attiré l'attention de tous sur l'importance de la santé, qui ne se limite pas à l'absence de maladie ou d'infirmité. Furthermore, I applaud our colleague's initiative because his report has brought to everyone's attention the importance of health, which does not just mean the absence of sickness or infirmity.

Definition of sickness

• The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness
• Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach

Examples

• I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare
• Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope
• Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.A letter dated 23-mar-1816--

Related words

• seasickness
• homesickness
• airsickness
• home-sickness
• carsickness
• sea-sickness
• trainsickness
• lovesickness
• gallsickness