sickliness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I do beseech your majesty, impute his words To wayward sickliness and age in him."
- "Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness."
- "My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness, and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day."
Etymology
Etymology tree English sickly Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English sickliness From sickly + -ness.