unwellness

Other forms of unwellness

plural

unwellnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unwellness

What does unwellness mean?

unwellness means "impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism".

How many syllables are in unwellness?

unwellness has 3 syllables and divides as un-well-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unwellness?

Close synonyms include illness, malady, sickness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unwellness?

The recorded antonyms are wellness.

Is unwellness a common word?

unwellness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.