Definitions for illnesses

illnesses ill·ness

Spelling: [il-nis]
IPA: /ˈɪl nɪs/

Illnesses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in illnesses (eeillnsss).

Definitions for illnesses

noun

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

Origin of illnesses

First recorded in 1490-1500; ill + -ness

Examples for illnesses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for illnesses
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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