sickness vs catastrophic illness

catastrophic illness vs sickness

sickness and catastrophic illness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sickness	Yes	No	No	No
catastrophic illness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, catastrophic illness is a hyponym of sickness; that is, catastrophic illness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sickness:

sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
catastrophic illness: severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines

Other hyponyms of sickness include condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, collapse, prostration, aeroembolism, air embolism, bends, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism, food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder, lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism, disease, hypermotility, indisposition, ozone sickness, toxaemia, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxemia of pregnancy, growth.

sickness (noun)	catastrophic illness (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines
the state that precedes vomiting
defectiveness or unsoundness

Difference between sickness and catastrophic illness

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