UNHEALTHFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unhealthfulness mean? 

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

1. the quality of promoting poor health

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHEALTHFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of promoting poor health

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)

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

insalubriousness; insalubrity (the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating)

Antonym:

healthfulness (the quality of promoting good health)

Derivation:

unhealthful (detrimental to good health)

unhealthful (not sanitary or healthful)

unhealthful (detrimental to health)