UNWELLNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unwellness mean? 

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

1. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNWELLNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

illness; malady; sickness; unwellness

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

health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)

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

condition (an illness, disease, or other medical problem)

ague (a fit of shivering or shaking)

amyloidosis (a disorder characterized by deposit of amyloid in organs or tissues; often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma)

anuresis; anuria (inability to urinate)

catastrophic illness (severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery; usually involves high costs for hospitals and doctors and medicines)

collapse; prostration (an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion)

aeroembolism; air embolism; bends; caisson disease; decompression sickness; gas embolism (pain resulting from rapid change in pressure)

food poisoning; gastrointestinal disorder (illness caused by poisonous or contaminated food)

lead poisoning; plumbism; saturnism (toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system)

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

hypermotility (excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract)

indisposition (a slight illness)

ozone sickness (illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft; characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness)

toxaemia; toxaemia of pregnancy; toxemia; toxemia of pregnancy (an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine)

growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))

Antonym:

wellness (a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease)

Derivation:

unwell (somewhat ill or prone to illness)