HEALTHINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healthiness mean? 

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

1. the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTHINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

good health; healthiness

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

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

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

haleness; wholeness (a state of robust good health)

energy; vim; vitality (a healthy capacity for vigorous activity)

bloom; blush; flush; rosiness (a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health)

freshness; glow (an alert and refreshed state)

radiance (an attractive combination of good health and happiness)

sturdiness (the state of being vigorous and robust)

condition; shape (the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases 'in condition' or 'in shape' or 'out of condition' or 'out of shape'))

Derivation:

healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)