Defect and Illness

Defect

Defect noun - Something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing.

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Illness and defect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Illness" instead a noun "Defect".

Illness noun - An abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning.

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Defect and illness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defect" instead a noun "Illness".

Nearby Word: ill

physical	physical defect	physical illness
rare	rare defect	rare illness
similar	similar defect	similar illness
common	common defect	common illness
Other adjectives: certain, real, serious, potential, permanent, major, mental, possible, minor, fatal, lethal, strange, congenital, debilitating, genetic.

In Mega Man Battle Network 3, a kid named Mamoru has an illness with a vague acronym (HBD) that essentially boils down to a heart defect.

Source: Ill Girl / Video Games
One line implied that the people from the valley can't afford to live anywhere else because they spend all of their money on treating the illness they get from living there, which makes sense as anybody born there suffers from at least one birth defect.

Source: Urban Segregation
Sound Defect: A Mafia henchman in Le Quadrumane Optimiste has a strange illness that causes every sound he makes to be rendered as a completely unrelated onomatopoeia (like whacking someone on the head with a huge "gulp" sound, for instance), and his boss regularly complains about it.

Source: Comic Book / Ach!lle Talon

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