Meanings
- historicaluncountablemedicineAn unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551.
Synonyms: English sweat, sudor anglicus
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn unidentified, highly virulent disease with aches and sweating, the cause of a series of epidemics in England and Europe between 1485 and 1551.
More synonyms by meaning
nounepidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish hikitauti
- hikitautidisease
German englischer Schweiss
- englischer Schweissdisease
Italian malattia del sudore, sudore inglese
- malattia del sudoredisease
- sudore inglesedisease
Spanish sudor inglés
- sudor inglésdisease
Swedish engelska svetten
- engelska svettendisease
Cite this entry
sweating sickness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweating%20sickness
“sweating sickness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweating%20sickness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sweating sickness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweating%20sickness.
Source: sweating sickness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.