lovesickness
noun
lovesickness is a noun meaning “The property or quality of being lovesick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-V-E-S-I-C-K-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lovesickness is lovesicknesses.
What does lovesickness mean?
noun
- 1
The property or quality of being lovesick.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lovesickness
- lovesicknesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lovesickness?
Lovesickness appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lovesickness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chagrin d'amour |
| German | Liebeskummer |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lovesickness come from?
From lovesick + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).