Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being healthy; soundness; freedom from disease: as, the healthiness of an animal or a plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
healthy . - noun countable The product or result of being
healthy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word healthiness.
Examples
-
Spanish healthiness is predicated on eating lots and lots of garlic and olive oil, plus lots of wonderful seafood like pulpo and cigallas, and drinking plenty of red wine with it.
-
Thanks, also, to an almost unchangeable good temper, the result of moral healthiness, which is itself the result of a well-balanced mind, and of tolerably good bodily health, I have been able to indulge in a quiet philosophy, which finds expression either in grateful optimism or playful irony.
Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897
-
Wealthy parents, seeing little peasant boys and girls playing about in the open air only half-clothed, and joining with this fact the general healthiness of labouring people, draw the unwarrantable conclusion that the healthiness is the result of the exposure, and resolve to keep their own offspring scantily covered!
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
-
This "healthiness" was evident in the fact that she enjoyed literature that avoided talking about the harsh reality of life; that her playing the piano was devoid of any deep feelings; and even in that she was far from being sentimental.
NOVELS-NOVELS 2003
-
There was almost a kind of healthiness about her hatred, based as it was on deep-rooted feelings, knowing no caution and no fear.
The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship
-
The long-term "healthiness" of these drinks, which are used regularly by athletes, has come into question.
-
Add another tiny ripple to the groundswell that is the Washington wine scene … … A quick hitter for a Wednesday … I examined three recent pieces of research for correlations in between wine consumption by state, overall happiness by state and ranking of "healthiness" …
Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto jlefevere@gmail.com 2010
-
Add another tiny ripple to the groundswell that is the Washington wine scene … … A quick hitter for a Wednesday … I examined three recent pieces of research for correlations in between wine consumption by state, overall happiness by state and ranking of "healthiness" …
Good Grape: A Wine Manifesto jlefevere@gmail.com 2010
-
The angel section leads a person to weigh abstract considerations such as "healthiness" against the basic desires of the devil part when craving rich food.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
-
A new way of rating food, called the Nuval Scoring System, assigns a "healthiness" score to food items on a scale of 1 to 100.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.