WELLNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does wellness mean? • WELLNESS (noun)
The noun WELLNESS has 1 sense:
1. a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
Familiarity information: WELLNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WELLNESS (noun)
Meaning:
A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
health; wellness
Context example:
physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients
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)
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