Sick"ness , n. [AS. seócness.]
1. The quality or state of being sick or
diseased; illness;
sisease or malady.
I do lament the sickness of the king.
Shak. Trust not too much
your now resistless charms;
Those, age or
sickness soon or late disarms.
Pope. 2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
Syn. -- Illness; disease; malady. See Illness.