Need another word that means the same as “illness”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “illness” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Illness” are: malady, sickness, unwellness, disease, ailment, disorder, complaint, affliction, attack, infection, contagion, disability, indisposition
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “illness” as a noun can have the following definitions:
affliction | An instance of one celestial body afflicting another. A crippling affliction of the nervous system. |
ailment | An illness, typically a minor one. The doctor diagnosed a common stomach ailment. |
attack | The act of attacking. Open to attack by the elements. |
complaint | (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow. She is receiving treatment for her skin complaint. |
contagion | A disease spread by close contact. A contagion of mirth. |
disability | The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness. The plaintiff was under a disability. |
disease | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. We are suffering from the British disease of self deprecation. |
disorder | The breakdown of peaceful and law-abiding public behaviour. The files are in complete disorder. |
indisposition | Mild illness. She was chiefly confined by indisposition to her bedroom. |
infection | The invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease. The infection of his enthusiasm for poetry. |
malady | A disease or ailment. An incurable malady. |
sickness | The state that precedes vomiting. A great sickness of his judgment. |
unwellness | Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism. |
bipolar | Of a person suffering from bipolar disorder. Bipolar species. |
blight | Cause to suffer a blight. Her remorse could be a blight on that happiness. |
canker | Of a plant or part of a plant become infected with canker. Secondary infections of canker and coccidiosis. |
contagious | Easily diffused or spread as from one person to another. It is a relatively new disease and very contagious. |
convalescence | Time spent recovering from an illness or medical treatment; recuperation. I had a long convalescence ahead. |
debilitating | (of a disease or condition) making someone very weak and infirm. The debilitating effects of underinvestment. |
diagnose | Identify the nature of (an illness or other problem) by examination of the symptoms. 20 000 men are diagnosed with skin cancer every year. |
disease | A particular quality or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people. We are suffering from the British disease of self deprecation. |
epidemic | Of the nature of an epidemic. An epidemic of violent crime. |
epilepsy | A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions. |
epizootic | An outbreak of an epizootic disease. Epizootic diseases in domestic livestock. |
flu | Influenza. She was in bed with flu. |
healer | A person or thing that mends or repairs something. Time is the best healer. |
hospitalization | Admission to hospital for treatment. He hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization. |
ill | Presaging ill fortune P B Shelley. Ill predictions. |
infectious | Of or relating to infection. Fear is exceedingly infectious children catch it from their elders. |
insane | Astonishingly good or impressive; amazing. Was declared insane. |
osteopath | A therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles. |
outpatient | A patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated. An outpatient clinic. |
pandemic | An outbreak of a pandemic disease. Pandemic fear of nuclear war. |
paranoia | A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality. Mild paranoia afflicts all prime ministers. |
paranoid | A person who is paranoid. You think I m paranoid but I tell you there is something going on. |
paroxysm | A sudden uncontrollable attack. Paroxysms of ataxia and shaking. |
pestilence | A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal. Neither prayers nor demonstrations halted the advance of the pestilence. |
pestilential | Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift. The tsetse flies that are so pestilential in tropical Africa. |
psychiatrist | A physician who specializes in psychiatry. |
recover | Get or find back recover the use of. Bring the firelock to the recover. |
recuperate | Restore to good health or strength. They will seek to recuperate the returns that go with investment. |
schizophrenia | A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation. Gibraltar s schizophrenia continues to be fed by colonial pride. |
therapist | A person who treats psychological problems a psychotherapist. Cost is one factor keeping them from the therapist s couch. |
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