different between irregularity vs sickness

English

Etymology

From Middle French irrégularité, from Medieval Latin irregularitas

Morphologically irregular +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?r?.?j?.?læ.r?.ti/

Noun

irregularity (countable and uncountable, plural irregularities)

1. (countable) An instance of being irregular.
2. (uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
3. (countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.

   an irregularity of surface

4. (countable) A violation of rules.

   An investigation of the irregularities in the company's accounts uncovered a large-scale fraud.

5. (euphemistic) Irregular bowel movement (e.g. diarrhea or constipation).

Synonyms

• (state of being irregular): See also Thesaurus:nonuniformity

Antonyms

• regularity

Related terms

• irregular

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old English s?ocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?kn?s/
• Hyphenation: sick?ness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare

   Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7

     We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

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References

• sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.