HEALTHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healthfulness mean? 

• HEALTHFULNESS (noun)
  The noun HEALTHFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of promoting good health

  Familiarity information: HEALTHFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of promoting good health

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("healthfulness" is a kind of...):

wholesomeness (the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "healthfulness"):

salubriousness; salubrity (the quality of being salubrious and invigorating)

Antonym:

unhealthfulness (the quality of promoting poor health)

Derivation:

healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)

healthful (free from filth and pathogens)

 Context examples 

To work in this garden was one of his most respectable pleasures; and Elizabeth admired the command of countenance with which Charlotte talked of the healthfulness of the exercise, and owned she encouraged it as much as possible.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)