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hospitalism

hospitalism noun: wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers.

Noun

hospitalism (uncountable)

  1. wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
  2. (dated) A spoiled or degenerate condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
    Synonyms:
    hospital-associated deconditioning, HAD

hospitalism meaning in Kannada

hospitalism in Kannada

ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ

Synonyms of hospitalism

  • hospital-associated deconditioning
  • HAD

Origin of hospitalism

From hospital + -ism.

Questions about hospitalism

What does hospitalism mean?
Hospitalism means wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers.
What is hospitalism in Kannada?
Hospitalism in Kannada is ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆ. See Hospitalism meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is hospitalism?
Hospitalism is a noun.

Words near hospitalism in the dictionary

  1. hospitalisations
  2. hospitalise
  3. hospitalised
  4. hospitalises
  5. hospitalising
  6. hospitalism
  7. hospitalist
  8. hospitalists
  9. hospitalities
  10. hospitality
  11. hospitality box

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hospitalism (page history and authors); hospitalism (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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