sickness vs symptom

symptom vs sickness

sickness and symptom both are nouns.

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

As nouns, symptom is a hypernym of sickness; that is, symptom is a word with a broader meaning than sickness:

sickness: the state that precedes vomiting
symptom: (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

sickness (noun)	symptom (noun)
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism	anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence
the state that precedes vomiting	(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
defectiveness or unsoundness

Difference between sickness and symptom

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