noun
Meaning 1
The state of being unhealthy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unhealthiness
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noun
Meaning 2
a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ill health, health problem
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pathological state
Narrower terms: dyscrasia, illness, unwellness, malady, sickness, invalidism, biliousness, infection, pathology, affliction, injury, hurt, harm, trauma, unfitness, softness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English unhealthy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English unhealthiness From unhealthy + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: insalubritat — the state of being unhealthy
- Finnish: epäterveellisyys — the state of being unhealthy
- French: insalubrité — the state of being unhealthy
- German: Ungesundheit — the state of being unhealthy
- Greek: ανθυγιεινότητα (anthygieinótita) — the state of being unhealthy
- Hungarian: egészségtelenség — the state of being unhealthy
- Irish: mífholláine — the state of being unhealthy
- Irish: easláinte — the state of being unhealthy
- Italian: insalubrità — the state of being unhealthy
- Manx: meefollanid — the state of being unhealthy
- Manx: aslaynt — the state of being unhealthy
- Manx: neuslayntoilid — the state of being unhealthy
- Portuguese: insalubridade — the state of being unhealthy
- Romanian: nesănătate — the state of being unhealthy
- Russian: боле́зненность (boléznennostʹ) — the state of being unhealthy
- Russian: вре́дность (vrédnostʹ) — the state of being unhealthy
- Russian: нездоро́вье (nezdoróvʹje) — the state of being unhealthy
- Spanish: insalubridad — the state of being unhealthy
- Telugu: అనారోగ్యము (anārōgyamu) — the state of being unhealthy