What is the difference between health and illness?
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The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
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, title= A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
Physical condition.
(obsolete) Cure, remedy.
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*:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
(countable) A toast to prosperity.
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(countable) An instance of a disease or poor health.
(uncountable) A state of bad health or disease.
In countable terms the difference between health and illness
is that health is a toast to prosperity while illness is an instance of a disease or poor health.As nouns the difference between health and illness
is that health is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness while illness is an instance of a disease or poor health.health
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(wikipedia health)Alternative forms
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(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
