Health vs. Healthiness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Health and Healthiness
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Definitions
Health➦
Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." A variety of definitions have been used for different purposes over time. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise, and by reducing or avoiding unhealthful activities or situations, such as smoking or excessive stress.
Healthiness➦
Possessing good health
A healthy child.
Health➦
The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
Healthiness➦
Conducive to good health; healthful
Healthy air.
Health➦
Soundness, especially of body or mind; freedom from disease or abnormality.
Healthiness➦
Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind
A healthy attitude.
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Health➦
A condition of optimal well-being
Concerned about the ecological health of the area.
Healthiness➦
Sizable; considerable
A healthy portion of peas.
A healthy raise in salary.
Health➦
A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.
Healthiness➦
So as to promote one's health; in a healthy way
If you eat healthy, you'll probably live longer.
Health➦
The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
Her mental health is really affected by stressful environments.
Healthiness➦
(uncountable) The state or quality of being healthy.
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Health➦
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.
The directors are concerned about the financial health of the project.
Healthiness➦
(countable) The product or result of being healthy.
Health➦
Physical condition.
Healthiness➦
The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.
Health➦
In shape, in forme.
Healthiness➦
The state of being vigorous and free from bodily or mental disease
Health➦
(obsolete) Cure, remedy.
Health➦
(countable) A toast to prosperity.
Health➦
(video games) The amount of damage an in-game object can withstand before it is destroyed.
The enemies on this level have a lot of health.
Health➦
(obsolete) A warrior; hero; man.
Health➦
The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
There is no health in us.
Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage.
Health➦
A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
Health➦
A healthy state of wellbeing free from disease;
Physicians should be held responsible for the health of their patients
Health➦
The general condition of body and mind;
His delicate health
In poor health
