All illness synonyms

noun illness

• disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
• malady — any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.
• breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
• disturbance — the act of disturbing.
• ailment — An ailment is an illness, especially one that is not very serious.
• sickness — a particular disease or malady.
• disability — lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
• seizure — the act or an instance of seizing.
• virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• relapse — to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
• disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
• syndrome — Pathology, Psychiatry. a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease, or the like.
• flu — influenza.
• complaint — A complaint is a statement in which you express your dissatisfaction with a particular situation.
• fit — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
• confinement — Confinement is the state of being forced to stay in a prison or another place which you cannot leave.
• indisposition — state of being indisposed.
• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• malaise — a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• prostration — the act of prostrating.
• dose — a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• infirmity — a physical weakness or ailment: the infirmities of age.
• convalescence — Convalescence is the period or process of becoming healthy and well again after an illness or operation.
• infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
• diseasedness — The state of being diseased; sickness.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
• debility — Debility is a weakness of a person's body or mind, especially one caused by an illness.
• ailing — An ailing organization or society is in difficulty and is becoming weaker.
• disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.