FromFrenchmalaise(“ill ease”), frommal-(“bad, badly”) +aise(“ease”). Compareill at ease.
malaise (countable anduncountable,pluralmalaises)
- A feeling of generalbodilydiscomfort,fatigue orunpleasantness, often at the onset ofillness.
- Synonyms:unease,doldrums,ill at ease
2019 August 21, Adrienne Matei, “Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone?”, inThe Guardian[1]:Addressing techmalaise has become a trend with authors and self-help coaches – such as Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, who, during a $295, 50-minute phone call, will offer you advice on things like how to create roadblocks to checking your phone by putting a rubber band around your screen, and “think of the bigger picture” rather than what you’re missing on Twitter.
- Anambiguous feeling ofmental ormoraldepression.
- Synonyms:melancholy,weltschmerz,angst
2003, Donald Kagan,The Peloponnesian War:Their failure helped produce the widespreadmalaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as their expensive furnishings, but worst of all, they had war instead of peace" (2.65.2).
- Ill will orhurtful feelings for others or someone.
bodily feeling
- Arabic:تَوَعُّك m(tawaʕʕuk),عَلَز m(ʕalaz)
- Bulgarian:неразположение (bg) n(nerazpoloženie)
- Catalan:malestar (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:不舒服 (zh)(bùshūfu),不適 /不适 (zh)(bùshì),欠安 (zh)(qiàn'ān)
- Czech:malátnost f
- Dutch:ongesteldheid (nl) f
- Finnish:huonovointisuus,pahanolontunne
- French:malaise (fr) m
- German:Unbehagen (de) n,Unwohlsein (de) n
- Greek:αδιαθεσία (el)(adiathesía)
- Hungarian:gyengélkedés (hu),rossz közérzet (hu)
- Irish:easláinte f,meath-thinneas m
- Italian:malessere (it) m
- Japanese:不快 (ja)(ふかい, fukai)
- Korean:불쾌감(不快感)(bulkwaegam)
- Persian:ناخوشی (fa)(nâxoši)
- Portuguese:mal-estar (pt) m
- Romanian:indispoziție (ro)
- Russian:недомога́ние (ru) n(nedomogánije)
- Serbo-Croatian:malaksalost (sh) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:njederjeměśe n
- Spanish:malestar (es) m
- Swedish:sjukdomskänsla,illamående (sv) n,olust (sv) c
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ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression
Frommal- +aise.
malaise m (pluralmalaises)
- malaise,uneasiness,cringe
- episode ofbeing taken ill, especially suddenly
2022, Mylène Crête, “Un avocat victime d'un malaise, les travaux interrompus”, inLa Presse:Les travaux de la Commission sur l’état d’urgence ont été interrompus mercredi après que l’un de ses avocats eût subi unmalaise. Gabriel Poliquin questionnait alors le sous-solliciteur général de l’Ontario, Mario Di Tommaso, lorsqu’il s’est subitement effondré.- The work of the Public Order Emergency Commission was interrupted Wednesday after one of its attorneyssuddenly fell ill. Gabriel Poliquin was questioning the deputy solicitor general of Ontario, Mario Di Tommaso, when he suddenly collapsed.
seemalais
malaise
- femininesingular ofmalais
FromDutchmalaise, fromFrenchmalaise.
malaisê (pluralmalaise-malaise)
- (economics)depression, a period of major economic contraction
- (medicine)malaise, a feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness
