Health vs Healthwise - What's the difference?
health | healthwise |
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.
*, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:
*: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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With regard to health
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 2, author=Ellie, title=Use, and you will be used, work=Toronto Star
, passage=Our deal was that I take care of him healthwise , after his hospital stay, but I went out instead, and we talked only occasionally. }}
As a noun health
is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.As an adverb healthwise is
with regard to health.health
English
(wikipedia health)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(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.}}
Derived terms
* healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health workerReferences
* *healthwise
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