Definitions for illness

illness ill·ness

Spelling: [il-nis]
IPA: /ˈɪl nɪs/

Illness is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in illness (eillnss).

Definitions for illness

noun

  1. unhealthy condition; poor health; indisposition; sickness.
  2. Obsolete. wickedness.

Origin of illness

First recorded in 1490-1500; ill + -ness

Examples for illness

Complaints of illness, snatching $2,000 from dad, a quick trip to Denver airport—and the three were apparently Syria-bound.

illness has always been a great source of fear, and still is.

But it is unfounded fear by an American public at minimal risk of contracting the illness that is confounding those efforts.

That was the beginning of her illness, February, eighteen eighty-three.

She would presume that he must go home after such an illness: the result she would wait!

Moses lost her job, and then her home, as she grappled with pain and illness after her spinal surgery.

He beat his illness twice, wrote about his battles with the disease, and continued broadcasting even as his health was failing.

I have not dared tell them of your marriage—only of your illness.

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

He seemed in his illness to love everybody more than even while he was well.

Word Value for illness
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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