unwellness

noun

Definition of unwellnessnext
as in debility

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  1. debility
  2. unsoundness
  3. malaise
  4. attack
  5. infection
  6. decrepitude
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Definition of debility
Noun
  • In looking back at the history of Emtech, the colt who suffered a catastrophic breakdown in Saturday’s eighth race, it was discovered that he was once placed on the Veterinarian’s List because of unsoundness.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes near the Oroville Dam, because of the threat of imminent flooding due to structural unsoundness.
    Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2017
Definition of unsoundness
Noun
  • In areas at extreme fire risk, from the Santa Cruz Mountains to rural corners of Northern California, fewer buyers could mean falling home prices, straining local tax bases and stunting efforts to emerge from the state’s lingering post-pandemic economic malaise.
    Jovi Dai, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Democratic candidates have traditionally won both districts easily, but some in the party had worried that a post-election malaise could jeopardize one or both of the seats.
    Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of malaise
Noun
  • The attack triggered a shutdown of parts of Change Healthcare’s electronic system, leaving doctors and other providers of medical care without the ability to get insurance approval of patient services.
    Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Other Republicans in attendance included Mr. Bush and Mike Pence, who was Mr. Trump’s vice president during his first term and was the target of rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
    Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of attack
Noun
  • If signs of infection were observed, she was confined to a hospital.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
  • These infections lead to hundreds of thousands of ER visits and hospitalizations, as well as around 900 deaths, every year.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of infection
Noun
  • Recent experience, including Mauricio Macri’s 2015-2019 Presidency, when Caputo and Federico Sturzenegger were also in charge of the nation’s economic levers, ended up with jarring devaluations that initiated a new and deeper descent into economic decrepitude.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • If that’s not enough for perennial contention, then the rest of the AFC East’s decrepitude will keep that window wide open.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of decrepitude
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