Meaning of MALAISE
| Pronunciation: | | ma'leyz
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| | Definition: | | [n] physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) |
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| | Synonyms: | | unease, uneasiness |
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| | See Also: | | discomfort, uncomfortableness | |
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| | Definition: | |  Malaise
A journalist from New York accompanies her engineer husband to a California desert town on the Mexican border, and begins to quietly crazy. The weather is unbearable, the place itself is stifling, everything is too raw and new--and she has a burning crush on her boss back home, the urbane Mr. Lieberman. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ma`laise"\, n. [F., fr. mal ill + aise ease.] (Med.)
An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill
at ease.
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| | Definition: | | The vague feeling of illness or discomfort. |
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| | Definition: | | Malaise is a general feeling of discomfort and being unwell. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abnormality, aches and pains, acute disease, affection, affliction, agitation, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, all-overs, angst, anguish, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blank despondency, blight, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, boredom, brouhaha, bustle, cankerworm of care, cardiovascular disease, care, cheerlessness, chronic disease, churn, circulatory disease, commotion, complaint, complication, concern, concernment, condition, congenital defect, conturbation, death wish, debility, decrepitude, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, disability, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, discouragement, disease, disheartenment, dislike, disorder, dispiritedness, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distemper, distress, disturbance, dolor, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, dread, drooping spirits, dullness, ebullition, embroilment, emptiness, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, ennui, epidemic disease, excitement, existential woe, fear, feebleness, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flatness, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, foreboding, forebodingness, fume, functional disease, fungus disease, fuss, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, grimness, handicap, heartlessness, hereditary disease, hopelessness, hubbub, hurly-burly, hurt, hurting, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, inquietude, jitters, joylessness, jumpiness, lack of pleasure, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, maelstrom, malady, misery, misgiving, moil, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, nausea, nerviness, nervosity, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, neurological disease, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oppression, organic disease, overanxiety, pain, painfulness, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, perturbation, pessimism, pins and needles, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, pucker, respiratory disease, restlessness, rockiness, roil, rout, row, savorlessness, Schmerz, secondary disease, seediness, seethe, seething, self-destructive urge, sickishness, sickliness, sickness, signs, sinking heart, Slough of Despond, solicitude, spiritlessness, spleen, staleness, stew, stir, strain, suffering, suicidal despair, suspense, swirl, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, taedium vitae, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tension, the pip, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unhealthiness, unpleasure, unquietness, unrest, unsatisfaction, upset, urogenital disease, vexation, vexation of spirit, virus disease, wasting disease, weariness of life, worm disease, zeal |
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