unhealthiness

unhealthiness

English

Etymology

From unhealthy +‎ -ness.

Noun

unhealthiness (usually uncountable, plural unhealthinesses)

1. The state of being unhealthy.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 27,

     […] 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.

   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Five,

     He looked elegant and vulnerable, his eyes edging away from contact and set into a face of exquisite unhealthiness.

Translations

the state of being unhealthy

Finnish: epäterveellisyys (fi) German: Ungesundheit f Greek: ανθυγιεινότητα (el) f (anthygieinótita) Irish: mífholláine f (climate), easláinte f (person) Italian: insalubrità (it) f Manx: meefollanid m (climate), aslaynt f (person), neuslayntoilid m (person) Romanian: nesănătate f Russian: боле́зненность (ru) f (boléznennostʹ), вре́дность (ru) f (vrédnostʹ), нездоро́вье (ru) n (nezdoróvʹje) Telugu: అనారోగ్యము (te) (anārōgyamu)