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unhealthiness

unhealthiness noun: the state of being unhealthy.

Noun

unhealthiness (usually uncountable, plural unhealthinesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being unhealthy.
    • […] I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged her safely enough, had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement.1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 27, in Jane Eyre
    • He looked elegant and vulnerable, his eyes edging away from contact and set into a face of exquisite unhealthiness.1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994

unhealthiness meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

unhealthiness in Tamil

நலிவு, அசௌகரியம், அசெளகரியம், சீத்தை, உடல்நலமின்மை, உடல்நலக் குறைவு

unhealthiness in Bengali

unhealthiness, filth, dirt
গ্লানি glani

unhealthiness in Telugu

the state of being unhealthy
అనారోగ్యము anārōgyamu

Forms of unhealthiness

pluralunhealthinesses

Origin of unhealthiness

From unhealthy + -ness.

Questions about unhealthiness

What does unhealthiness mean?
Unhealthiness means the state of being unhealthy.
What is unhealthiness in Tamil?
Unhealthiness in Tamil is நலிவு, அசௌகரியம், அசெளகரியம். See Unhealthiness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unhealthiness?
Unhealthiness is a noun.
What is the plural of unhealthiness?
The plural of unhealthiness is unhealthinesses.

Words near unhealthiness in the dictionary

  1. unhealthfully
  2. unhealthfulness
  3. unhealthier
  4. unhealthiest
  5. unhealthily
  6. unhealthiness
  7. unhealthinesses
  8. unhealths
  9. unhealthsome
  10. unhealthy
  11. unhealthyness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unhealthiness (page history and authors); unhealthiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গ্লানি (Bengali) (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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