different between debility vs sickness
debility
English
Etymology
From Middle English debylite, from Old French debilité (French débilité), from Latin d?bilit?s (“weakness”), from d?bilis (“weak”), from d?- + habilis (“able”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??b?l?ti/
- Rhymes: -?l?ti
Noun
debility (countable and uncountable, plural debilities)
- A state of physical or mental weakness.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
- As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
- […]
- I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
Related terms
- debile
- debilitate
- debilitation
Translations
Further reading
- debility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debility in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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sickness
English
Etymology
From Old English s?ocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?kn?s/
- Hyphenation: sick?ness
Noun
sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)
- The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.
- 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.
- Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
- (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
- 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7
- We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.
- 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7
Synonyms
- (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady
Derived terms
Translations
References
- sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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