diseases

Meaning of diseases

plural noun
  1. a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
    bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease
    heart disease

Middle English (in the sense ‘lack of ease; inconvenience’): from Old French desaise ‘lack of ease’, from des- (expressing reversal) + aise ‘ease’.

Information about diseases

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of diseases is: disease.
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Hyphenation of diseases

dis-eases

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • diseases is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

diseases synonyms

Meaning a disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind:

illness

Meaning the state of being ill:

sickness

Meaning an infectious disease:

infection

Meaning an illness, typically a minor one:

ailment

Meaning a disease or ailment:

malady

Meaning an illness or condition that disrupts normal physical or mental functions:

disorder

Meaning an illness or medical condition, especially a relatively minor one:

complaint

Meaning a cause of pain or harm:

affliction

Meaning an illness or other medical problem:

condition

Meaning mild illness:

indisposition

Meaning a disturbance of a person's digestive system:

upset

Meaning a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome:

problem

Meaning the malfunction of something such as a machine or a part of the body:

trouble

Meaning physical or mental weakness:

infirmity

Meaning a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities:

disability

Meaning a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack:

defect

Meaning an abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence:

abnormality

Meaning a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague:

pestilence

Meaning any contagious disease that spreads rapidly and kills many people:

plague

Meaning an evil or destructive practice or phenomenon that is hard to contain or eradicate:

cancer

Meaning a malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate:

canker

Meaning a plant disease, typically one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts:

blight

Meaning an illness caused by a microorganism:

bug

Meaning an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host:

virus

Meaning an unspecified or indeterminate illness:

lurgy

Meaning a person who is not white:

wog

Meaning a disease spread by close contact:

contagion

diseases antonyms

Meaning the state of being free from illness or injury:

health

Anagrams of diseases

seasides

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