conditions

Noun

condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)

1. A state or quality.
   • National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.

   Synonyms:

   way

   1. A particular state of being.
      • Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
   2. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
      • A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
   3. The health status of a medical patient.
      • My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
   4. A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
      • While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
2. A requirement or prerequisite.
   • Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.

   Synonyms:

   requisite, necessity

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