Definition of Symptom

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Symptom

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.

A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.

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Symptom Quotations

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
Walter Bagehot

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
Herman Hesse

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Symptom Translations

symptom in Dutch is teken, symptoom, verschijnsel
symptom in German is Merkmal
symptom in Portuguese is sintoma

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