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Malady vs Indisposition - What's the difference?

malady | indisposition |

As nouns the difference between malady and indisposition

is that malady is any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder while indisposition is a mild illness, the state of being indisposed.

malady

English

Noun

(maladies)
  • Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
  • * The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster .
  • A moral or mental defect or disorder.
  • * Love's a malady without a cure. Dryden .

    • Synonyms

    * ailment * disease * disorder * distemper * illness * sickness

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    indisposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a mild illness, the state of being indisposed
  • * 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
    • I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
  • a bad mood or disposition
  • * 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
    • Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves?