malaise

Definition

  • noun: a slight or general feeling of not being healthy or happy
  • noun: an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness

Examples

  • The country's current economic problems are symptoms of a deeper 'malaise'.

  • The symptoms include headache, 'malaise', and fatigue.

  • An infected person will feel a general 'malaise'.

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Movie quotes

  • (..) treatment as full citizens. We will march until the viciousness and the darkness gives way to the light of righteousness. No man, no myth, no malaise will stop this movement. We forbid it. For we know that it is this darkness that murders the best in us and the best of us. (..)
    2014 Selma