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healthspans

healthspans is the plural of healthspan.

Meaning of healthspan

Noun

healthspan (plural healthspans)

  1. The length of time in one's life where one is generally in good health.
    • We now have a glimpse of a future which could include the ultimate conquest of frailty, disease and disability that occurs frequently with aging. […] In short, our goal is not just a longer lifespan but an extended "healthspan," helping a greater number of older Americans lead vigorous, more...1988 May 11, “Opportunities for Aging Research in the Fiscal Year 1989 Budget”, in Advances in Aging Research: Hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundredth...

Questions about healthspans

What is healthspans the plural of?
Healthspans is the plural of healthspan.

Words near healthspans in the dictionary

  1. healthscape
  2. healthscapes
  3. healthsome
  4. healthsomeness
  5. healthspan
  6. healthspans
  7. healthward
  8. healthwash
  9. healthwashed
  10. healthwashes
  11. healthwashing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: healthspans (page history and authors); healthspan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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