sickness vs growth

growth vs sickness

sickness and growth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sickness	Yes	No	No	No
growth	Yes	No	No	No

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

sickness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
growth: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

Other hyponyms of sickness include condition, ague, amyloidosis, anuresis, anuria, catastrophic illness, 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.

sickness (noun)	growth (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	the gradual beginning or coming forth
the state that precedes vomiting	vegetation that has grown
defectiveness or unsoundness	something grown or growing
	(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
	a progression from simpler to more complex forms
	a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
	(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

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