UNHEALTHINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unhealthiness mean? 

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

1. a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHEALTHINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

health problem; ill health; unhealthiness

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

pathological state (a physical condition that is caused by disease)

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

dyscrasia (an abnormal or physiologically unbalanced state of the body)

illness; malady; sickness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)

invalidism (chronic ill health)

biliousness (gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder)

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

affliction (a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health)

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

softness; unfitness (poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury))

Derivation:

unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)

 Context examples 

I charged them to conceal from you, before I ever saw you, all knowledge of the curse of the place; merely because I feared Adele never would have a governess to stay if she knew with what inmate she was housed, and my plans would not permit me to remove the maniac elsewhere—though I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged her safely enough, had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)