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UNHEALTHFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of promoting poor health
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unhealthfulness" is a kind of...):
morbidity; morbidness; unwholesomeness (the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unhealthfulness"):
insalubriousness; insalubrity (the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating)
Antonym:
healthfulness (the quality of promoting good health)
Derivation:
unhealthful (detrimental to good health)
unhealthful (not sanitary or healthful)
unhealthful (detrimental to health)
