[responsivevoice] malaise [/responsivevoice] [ ma-leyz ]
The word of the day is ‘malaise’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Depression
2. Sickness
3. A general feeling of discomfort, illness
4. Unease whose exact cause is difficult to identify
1. Hindi – Asvasthata
2. Spanish – Malestar
3. French – Malaise
4. Mandarin – Bùshì
1. These signs are accompanied by fever, malaise, and depression of spirits.
2. Fever is slight or absent; there are malaise and loss of strength.
3. Yet all the time my nervousness and malaise increased appreciably.
4. Who can work hard if he is suffering from a perpetual feeling of malaise?
5. An incident showed me that his malaise was curable by one method only.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
angst, anxiety, despair, discomfort, disquiet, doldrums, illness, pain, unease, uneasiness, weakness, debility, decrepitude, distress, enervation, feebleness, infirmity, lassitude, melancholy, unhealthiness, infirmness, sickliness, unhappiness, restlessness, depression, despondency, dejection, trouble, anguish, ills, listlessness, languor, weariness, indisposition, sickness, disease etc.
calmness, cheer, comfort, ease, good health, happiness, health, joy, peace, pleasure, well-being, ability, soundness, strength, healthiness, well being
Quotation:
I think that there’s a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There’s a cultural malaise – mental illness or no – that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
Frances McDormand
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