malaises

Noun

malaise (countable and uncountable, plural malaises)

1. A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
   • Addressing tech malaise has become a trend with authors and self-help coaches – such as Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, who, during a $295, 50-minute phone call, will offer you advice on things like how to create roadblocks to checking your phone by putting a rubber band...2019 August 21, Adrienne Matei, “Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone?”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms:

   unease, doldrums, ill at ease

2. An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.
   • Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as...2003, Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War

   Synonyms:

   melancholy, weltschmerz, angst

3. Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.