Sickness and Weakness

Sickness

Sickness noun - The condition of not being in good health.

Usage example: she was plagued by sickness most of her adult life

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Weakness and sickness are semantically related In some cases you can use "Weakness" instead a noun "Sickness".

Nearby Words: sick, sicken

Weakness noun - The quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor.

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Sickness and weakness are semantically related in infirmity topic. Sometimes you can use "Sickness" instead a noun "Weakness".

Nearby Words: weak, weaken, weakly, weakening, weakling

human	human sickness	human weakness
physical	physical sickness	physical weakness
actual	actual sickness	actual weakness
real	real sickness	real weakness
Other adjectives: severe, extreme, unfortunate, bad, inherent, new, mental, general, apparent, temporary, deadly, fatal, odd, greatest, crippling, debilitating.

My name is Yutaka Takenouchi, and I have only one weakness ... I am very susceptible to motion sickness!

Source: Weaksauce Weakness
The logistics-horses for these armies also have no food (in the short-term meaning weakness as well as exhaustion, which contributes to crippling rates of sickness among the poor creatures, and in the long-term meaning death).

Source: Useful Notes / World War I
Weaksauce Weakness: For all the power of a Prime, they're unable to travel through space without suffering Travel Sickness - vertigo so bad it requires hospitalization.

Source: Literature / Tower and the Hive

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