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WELLNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wellness mean?
• WELLNESS (noun)
The noun WELLNESS has 1 sense:
1. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
Familiarity information: WELLNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
health; wellness
Context example:
physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients
Hypernyms ("wellness" is a kind of...):
eudaemonia; eudaimonia; upbeat; welfare; well-being; wellbeing (a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous)
Attribute:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Antonym:
illness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
Derivation:
well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)
Context examples
NPs focus on disease prevention, wellness, and patient education.
(Nurse practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)
The sixth house rules your health and fitness, and a new moon is often a good time to start a new wellness program.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Cardiac/vascular nursing practice promotes achievement and maintenance of optimal cardiac/vascular wellness.
(Cardiac/Vascular Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)
N.D. has a qualification of primary care physicians with a specialized focus in preventative medicine, natural therapeutics, and emphasis on holistic and nontoxic approaches to therapy and optimizing wellness.
(Naturopathic Doctor, NCI Thesaurus)
The theoretical basis for this nursing practice incorporates physiological and psychosocial concepts of health as they affect cardiac/vascular wellness.
(Cardiac/Vascular Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)
The sixth house also rules health, but in this case, physical (not mental) health, so again that theme of wellness surfaces.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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