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Hrsanei Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Illness versus sickness

How is illness different from sickness?

I have heard illness more in formal medical context. Is it just more formal?

Does the difference have anything to do with being mental or physical?

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found this on the internet: Sickness vs. Illness So often we confuse these two words: sickness and illness. We use them interchangeably as though they each meant the same thing.

  • found this on the internet: Sickness vs.
  • Illness So often we confuse these two words: sickness and illness.
  • We use them interchangeably as though they each meant the same thing.
  • They don’t!
  • Sickness is when a part of the body is broken or malfunctioning.
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found this on the internet:

Sickness vs. Illness So often we confuse these two words: sickness and illness. We use them interchangeably as though they each meant the same thing. They don’t! Sickness is when a part of the body is broken or malfunctioning. Any medical diagnosis, or psychiatric malady is a sickness. Illness, on the other hand, refers to our emotional, psychological, and/o

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