the state of being ill
disease; bad health
Cases of word usage
1) an illness (ailment)
2) a mental illness that makes a person refuse to eat (anorexia)
3) in an unnatural deep sleep because of injury or illness (coma)
4) (of ideas, illness etc) that can be communicated or passed on (communicable)
5) to get one's health and strength back after an illness (convalesce)
6) a person who is recovering from illness (convalescent)
7) a violent mental disturbance, often accompanied by uncontrolled movement and talk, especially during feverish illness (delirium)
8) a condition of the human body with a temperature higher than usual, especially when a sign of illness (fever)
9) the condition of the body or the mind; the state of being well and free from illness (health)
10) (of) a person sexually attracted to people of her or his won sex described in medical textbooks as mental illness (homosexual)