ailment
noun/ˈeɪ̯lmənt/ · [ˈeɪ̯lmənt] ~ [ˈeɪ̯lmn̩t]
Etymology From ail + -ment.
1
Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
- Near-synonym: complaint (contextually synonymous)
- He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school. He hadn't the faintest idea what to with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- Derived terms
- status ailment