Antonym: health. Similar words: homesickness, darkness, nickname, sick, tactlessness, sicken, sadness, madness. Meaning: ['sɪknɪs] n. 1. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism 2. defectiveness or unsoundness 3. the state that precedes vomiting.
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(91) The giddiness may also be accompanied by a feeling of nausea and actual sickness.
(92) I am light-headed, perhaps from a mild attack of altitude sickness.
(93) Psychosocial factors at work and outside work also predicted rates of sickness absence.
(94) Well, as Faye told you over lunch, she feels that her morning sickness is beginning to taper off.
(95) They will fly at low level for two hours, with many men suffering the effects of air sickness and dehydration.
(96) He had never had a day of sickness, not so much as a cold.
(97) During the waiting days your pay will consist of the sickness allowance.
(98) As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
(99) This gave a new urgency to discussions of the extent of poverty, sickness and physical disability.
(100) They may suffer sickness, vomiting or acute pain, but they do not die.
(101) I forgot the sickness and leapt around clutching my nose.
(102) Sickness and pride, in the grey light of day, were set in his unchanging face like a mask.
(103) They were useful for treating allergic disorders and also as sedatives and remedies for motion sickness.
(104) In the 1980 budget, the Government announced that unemployment pay, sickness and invalidity benefit would be liable to tax.
(105) A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness.
(106) Temporary appropriations for paying civil servants' wages and unemployment and sickness benefits will have run out by then.
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(107) The bulimia, the morning sickness, her collapsing marriage and her jealousy of Camilla conspired to make her life intolerable.
(108) It provided cover against sickness and unemployment for some, initially limited, categories of workers.
(109) An expert on altitude sickness says he hasn't got long to live.
(110) It was possible to examine sickness absence within an organisation with a single sickness absence policy.
(111) Sickness caused by overcrowding, and the damp, fetid conditions had appalled him.
(112) This paper seeks to describe and explain observed grade differences in sickness absence.
(113) Sickness absence overall fell sharply last year by almost 0.5 percent of working time from the 1991 figure of 4.0 percent.
(114) Thus the idea of wine might be associated with sickness instead of with good fellowship.
(115) The sickness rate is well up and is a matter of considerable concern.
(116) One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen.
(117) Do not provide spurious sickness certificates: these prolong the illness.
(118) The time when children and families were otherwise most healthy and carefree came to be a time of sickness and dread.
(119) For some, the visit is a welcome break from medical treatment they're receiving for radiation sickness.
(120) These include the idea of shadow sickness and the moral imperative to keep going-and for others to do so.
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