English-Italian translations for illness

• malattia
  E' una malattia che si manifesta ciclicamente. It is an illness that recurs on a regular basis.
  Non è soltanto il nostro ambiente a causare la malattia. It is not only our environment that causes illness.
  Perciò la malattia mentale non dev’essere motivo di vergogna. So mental illness should be nothing to be ashamed of.
• malanno
• patologia
  Si tratta della patologia cronica e terminale più frequente tra i nostri anziani. It is the most common, chronic, terminal illness among our older people.
  Non riusciva nemmeno a dirmi che stava cercando di non soccombere a una patologia correlata all'AIDS. He could not even tell me that he was living and dying with an AIDS-related illness.
  Si stima che, entro il 2020, essa diventerà la patologia più diffusa nei paesi industrializzati. It is estimated that by 2020 depression will be the most common illness in the developed world.

Definition of illness

• An instance of a disease or poor health
• A state of bad health or disease

Examples

• Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
• Many working days this year have been lost through illness.

Related words

• stillness
• illness behaviour
• illness {bearing
• mental illness
• glass illness
• children's illness
• fashionable illness
• succumb to illness
• cause of illness