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View synonyms for malaise

malaise

[ ma-leyz, -muh-; French ma-lez ]

noun

  1. a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
  2. a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort.


malaise

/ mæˈleɪz /

noun

  1. a feeling of unease or depression
  2. a mild sickness, not symptomatic of any disease or ailment
  3. a complex of problems affecting a country, economy, etc

    Bulgaria's economic malaise



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Word History and Origins

Origin of malaise1

First recorded in 1760–70; from French, Old French, equivalent to mal- + ease

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Word History and Origins

Origin of malaise1

C18: from Old French, from mal bad + aise ease

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Example Sentences

The accelerating digital transformation, reduxFrom that malaise we turn to the SaaS and cloud world.

The United States was in the middle of a deep and pervasive malaise, never really regaining its footing after the wholesale destruction of the Summer of Love.

From Ozy

Because the years between 2010 to 2015 were a period of steady economic growth and falling unemployment, it’s unlikely that economic malaise was a factor.

It remains to be seen whether government support has merely delayed heavy losses, or created a bridge for consumers and business until they to get to the other side of the economic malaise.

From Quartz

Add in worry over the global economic malaise, and the 2020 harvest is shaping up to be one of the most troublesome in memory.

From Fortune

It is a nostalgic, old-fashioned novel that nevertheless reflects the malaise of its era and prefigures our own technophiliac age.

Maybe each of these instances was a cry for help, almost certainly they were symptoms of a much deeper malaise.

Moral equivalence and malaise, rather than red-hot ideology, motivates Haydon.

In both syndromes, early signs include fever and profound malaise.

To combat the malaise, fast food joints are pursuing a high-low strategy, or, as I prefer to dub it, the “Moms and Bros” strategy.

There may be fever associated with weakness, headache, general malaise and pain, and this may be marked or rather light.

The majority were more than momentarily tired, they were visibly suffering from some sort of malaise.

I think my malaise is chiefly owing to the depressing influence of town air and town scenes.

Whatever vices I have seem to be exaggerated by my malaise—such "chastening" not answering the purpose of purification in my case.

The King's physical malaise, however, is accompanied by a curious mental agitation and a strange loquacity.

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