sickness

noun3

1. •
   a state of poor health in the body or the mind, especially one caused by disease

   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Miss Blount Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms.
2. •
   Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. •
   The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.

   • 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. — 1997