illness

Plural

illnesses

1. 1.An instance (episode) of a disease or poor health.

   • Her grandmother had passed away after a long illness.
   • This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.

2. 2.A state of bad health or disease.

   • Many working days this year have been lost through illness.
   • Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.

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• health