πάθηση — meaning in English

English meaning

• affection noun A feeling of fondness, warmth, or love toward someone.
• ailment noun An illness, especially a minor or ongoing one.
• disease noun An illness affecting the body or mind, caused by infection, malfunction, or other harmful factors.

Senses

πάθηση is used for these senses in English:

• affection (medicine, archaic) A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.
• ailment Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.
• disease (medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

Related Greek words