malaise
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8.1
- noun
- /məˈleɪz/
:
malestar
- After weeks of feeling tired and depressed, she finally admitted that she was experiencing a profound sense of malaise.
- general malaise
- economic malaise
- social malaise
And that speaks to a malaise about our society in general.
- And that speaks to a malaise about our society in general.
- Have you considered if there is a broader dynamic going on here that ties together the general sort of malaise that men are finding themselves in?
- But what is the real link between major depression, which is, you know, the classical, you know, signs of, you know, malaise.
- And that's because you've conditioned the animals to now be averse to this otherwise nice taste because it's been associated with malaise.
- So we have to turn this around and it's a malaise.
- Those maybe being less objectively accurate but more subjectively reassuring have left people in more malaise.
- And so in order to deal with the malaise of being out there in the colonies, we welcome or accept something else that's even worse.
Examples
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In this country and abroad, there is a sense of malaise, if not crisis, about the state of foreign-language education.
Academic text (2008) -
I thought it was just malaise from hanging around the house so much.
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And that speaks to a malaise about our society in general.
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The nation seemed to be caught up in some kind of malaise.
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A youth experiences symptoms and reports her malaise to her parents.
Academic text (2000) -
His simple message proclaimed that the malaise was gone: "America is back."
Academic text (1993) -
A fundamental determinant of the malaise of our society.
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Lately, and for no clear reason, a bitter malaise has been lurking in my soul.
Fiction book (2002) -
A popular perception is that a malaise has set in among lawyers, creating widespread dissatisfaction and image problems.
Academic text (1994) -
The story of maize in 1993 is, for many, symptomatic of a wider malaise in the government.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
119
3.2
A feeling of physical pain or mental unease
103
1.0
A time when your body is not healthy
19
4.4
A feeling of worry and not being relaxed
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3.6
A worried, uncomfortable feeling when you cannot relax
1
6.0
A feeling of being uneasy or awkward
1
9.7
A feeling of worry that makes you restless and uneasy
A time when a person feels sick or has health problems
Antonyms
How Unwell
Surface Forms
Etymology
Malaise comes from French parts mal 'bad' and aise 'ease', the same idea as English ease but with 'bad' added. So malaise literally means 'bad ease' and is used for a general feeling of discomfort or unease.