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unˈhealthiness
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The quality or condition of being unhealthy: a. Of persons, etc.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 25 Doubtlesse their too much farcinating..acted rather their vnhealthinesse. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Unhealthiness.., sickliness, unhealthful Quality or Condition. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 7 One great source of the diseases of children is, the unhealthiness of parents. 1828–32Webster s.v., The unhealthiness of trees or other plants. 1851Hawthorne Twice-told T. I. vi. 107 A certain unhealthiness in the mind of the boy.
b. Of places, climate, etc.
1666Sancroft Lex Ignea 51 To scatter the Cloud of the last years unhealthiness. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 224 Whether it was the badness of the Water, or the unhealthiness of the Town was the cause of it we did not know. 1773Cook's Voy. iii. xi. III. 728 In less than a week, we were sensible of the unhealthiness of the climate. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. viii. 205 Hence the unhealthiness of brilliantly lighted apartments. 1898Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Oct. 300 The chief..cause of the unhealthiness of the city. |