Heath vs Healthiness - What's the difference?
heath | healthiness |
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
* ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
*:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
# Many of the species in the genus Erica
# Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
# Both species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
# Any of the species in the genus
(label) Certain butterflies and moths
# The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
# , the heath fritillary
#
(uncountable) The state or quality of being healthy.
(countable) The product or result of being healthy.
In countable terms the difference between heath and healthiness
is that heath is certain butterflies and moths while healthiness is the product or result of being healthy.As nouns the difference between heath and healthiness
is that heath is a tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland while healthiness is the state or quality of being healthy.As a proper noun Heath
is {{surname}.heath
English
(wikipedia heath)Noun
- There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
