Illness — Defs

01 n. The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.

1.
The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness.[Obs.]
2.
Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
3.
Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.

Syn. Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment.

-- Illness, Sickness. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or “sickness of the stomach.”