nonailing

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ ailing

Adjective[edit]

nonailing (not comparable)

  1. Not ailing.
    • 1962, Fred V. Hein, Perspectives on Living: Readings for College Health Courses, page 58:
      Possibly the most curious of all human afflictions is that which does not afflict its victims, but victimizes the nonafflicted: the ailment whose sufferers are only the nonailing; the complaint of which only non-patients complain and are impatient.
    • 1972, Milton Irwin Roemer, Health Insurance Effects, page 37:
      Moreover, within the nonailing families, the doctor's care index across the three plan- types is quite similar, while in the families with chronic illness it is substantially higher within the provider plans than in the other two types.
    • 2004, Robert J. Wilensky, Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds, page 96:
      Health services for the "nonailing" majority tended to be neglected.