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Definition of symptom : See Phenomenon.

Synonyms:

type, emblem, litmus test, dehydration, crisis, chill, prognostic, aetiology, discharge, note, mark, trait, hallucination, token, pathology, promise, etiology, perforation, signal, symbol, preview, tip-off

disease, ague, feverishness, complication, condition, sickness, malaise, infirmity, spasm, affection, virus, apoplexy, complaint, sickliness, breakdown, syndrome, bug, handicap, pestilence, ailment, illness, attack, malady, curse, unhealthiness, disability, disorder, debility, queasiness, decrepitude, infliction, collapse, indisposition, nausea, infection, fever

harbinger, foretaste, portent, omen, foretoken, caution, premonitory sign, messenger, presage, sign, warning signal, writing on the wall, forewarning, indication, herald, augury, pre-indication

evidence, incarnation, demonstration, proof, revelation, manifestation, embodiment, expression, staging, discernibility, exhibition, materialization, showing, display, presentation, unfolding, disclosure, appearance, exposure

Usage examples:

• I was as full of life, and, when occasion offered, as reckless, as ever, though a strange symptom began to make itself unpleasantly felt. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• In her secret heart, Mrs. Adams regarded this as an ominous symptom, and felt an ever- increasing anxiety lest he should never reach home alive. - "Half a Dozen Girls", Anna Chapin Ray.
• He betrayed but one symptom, before he breathed his last, of being delirious, which was this: he was all on a sudden much frightened, and complained that he was carried away by forty men. - "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome", Various.