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Many corpus-based studies of words have depended simply on collocation and lexico-grammatical patterns. This can lead to a distortion of the truth of words. This study aims to distinguish between disease, disorder and condition using corpus-based collocation and ‘Binary Opposition(henceforth, BO) Strategy proposed by Kim (2014) to distinguish a pair of lexical/ grammatical near-synonyms. The basic idea of BO is that in order to distinguish effectively between a pair of near-synonyms, the contextual BO features such as [part vs. whole], and [cause vs. effect], etc, must have critical difference between them. The results of this study show that these three near-synonyms are distinguished in the context by the opposite features such as [+diagnosed vs. -diagnosed], [intrinsic vs. extrinsic], [+curable vs. -curable], [concrete vs. abstract] and [part vs. whole].