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Definition of disease:
- An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
- Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
- To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
- To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; - used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.
Synonyms:
insanity, visitation, plague, nervous disorder, spell, complex, distemper, pathological case, contagion, unsoundness, pathological condition, ill, epidemic, health, seizure, symptomatology, temperature, affliction, psychosomatic illness, morbidity, functional disorder.
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disease (part of speech: noun)
- disorder,
- ague,
- handicap,
- complication,
- condition,
- spasm,
- nausea,
- infliction,
- symptom,
- affection,
- virus,
- apoplexy,
- complaint,
- sickness,
- breakdown,
- syndrome,
- bug,
- illness,
- queasiness,
- ailment,
- indisposition,
- attack,
- malaise,
- curse,
- unhealthiness,
- disability,
- fever,
- debility,
- sickliness,
- decrepitude,
- malady,
- collapse,
- infection,
- pestilence,
- infirmity,
- feverishness
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unhealthiness (part of speech: noun)
- pestilence,
- poisonousness,
- contagiousness,
- deadliness,
- noxiousness,
- contamination,
- pathology,
- malignancy,
- infection,
- toxicity,
- insalubrity,
- unhealthiness,
- unwholesomeness,
- sickness