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Your body filing a formal complaint you can't ignore.
means A state of poor health, whether brief, chronic, physical, or mental, where the body or mind stops working as it should.
from From Old Norse illr, meaning bad or evil, plus -ness — literally the state of being bad, before badness narrowed to the medical kind.
Not sicknessIllness is felt; disease is diagnosed; sickness is the social role.
Phantom statisticsMost illness episodes never reach a doctor at all.
Word driftIll once meant morally wicked, not merely unwell.