indisposition

Noun

indisposition (countable and uncountable, plural indispositions)

1. A mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
   • I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, chapter 7, in Amelia, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC
   • She began not to understand a word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse herself.1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as...
   1. (dated, euphemistic) Period, menstrual state.
2. A state of not being disposed to do something; disinclination; unwillingness.
   • He argued that the progress of wealth could be impeded not only by an indisposition to produce, but also by an indisposition to consume […]1989, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Pullen, Principles of Political Economy, volume 2, page 435
3. A bad mood or disposition.
   • Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?1597, Francis Bacon, Essays