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WELLNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
Example:
physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients
Synonyms:
health; wellness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("wellness" is a kind of...):
eudaemonia; eudaimonia; upbeat; welfare; well-being; wellbeing (a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous)
Attribute:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Antonym:
illness; unwellness (impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism)
Derivation:
well (in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury)
