ill-being

American  

[il-bee-ing] / ˈɪlˈbi ɪŋ /

noun

1. state or condition of lacking health, solvency, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of ill-being

First recorded in 1830–40; modeled on well-being

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Example Sentences

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ill-being

Two pieces of testimony, from opposite poles of French life, show how relative the sense of ill-being can be.

From Time Magazine Archive

With recovery from his physical ill-being came a new mental restlessness; the return, rather, of a mood which had always assailed him when he lost for a time his ideal hope.

From The Crown of Life by George Gissing

It must be either admitted or denied that the acts called good and the acts called bad naturally conduce, the one to human well-being and the other to human ill-being.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

For instance what on earth had possessed me to take such an interest in the well-being or ill-being of Major Sewin and his family?

From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

With the inrushing of depressive memories or ideas ... there is suddenly developed a condition of fatigue, ill-being and disintegration, followed after waking by a return or accentuation of all the neurasthenic symptoms.

From Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. Jackson

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