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illness meaning

EN[ˈɪl.nəs]
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    Definition of illness in English Dictionary

  • NounPLillnessesPREill-SUF-ness
    1. NC An instance of a disease or poor health.
      1. NU A state of bad health or disease.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • She finds her mental illness very difficult to cope with.
          • "I thought the people we'd be arguing with are the people who believe psychiatric illness doesn't exist" or those who believe children are being overmedicated, he said.
          • The news of his father's illness determined him to depart immediately.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • Many people have suffered from colds, the sniffles and other childhood illnesses.
          • They are extremely effective in reducing pain, which many medical studies suggest is widely undertreated in patients suffering serious illness.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Morphemes
          • Suffixes
            • Words by suffix
              • Words suffixed with -ness
              • Suffixes that form nouns from adjectives and nouns
                • Words suffixed with -ness
            • Nouns
              • Countable nouns
                • Singularia tantum
                  • Uncountable nouns
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              Source: Wiktionary

              Meaning of illness for the defined word.

              Grammatically, this word "illness" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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