malaise

See also: Malaise and malaisé

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”). Compare ill at ease.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæˈleɪz/
• IPA^(key): /məˈleɪz/, /mæ-/, /-ˈlɛz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophone: Malays

Noun

malaise (countable and uncountable, plural malaises)

1. A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
2. An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.
   • 2003, Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War:

     Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise 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).

3. Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.

Synonyms

• angst
• doldrums
• ill at ease
• melancholy
• unease
• weltschmerz

Related terms

• disease from des- + aise

Translations

bodily feeling

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不舒服 (zh) (bùshūfu), 不適／不适 (zh) (bùshì), 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: malessere (it) m
• Japanese: 不快 (ja) (ふかい, fukai)
• Persian: ناخوشی (fa) (nâxoši)
• Portuguese: mal-estar (pt) m
• Romanian: indispoziție (ro)
• Russian: недомога́ние (ru) n (nedomogánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: malaksalost (sh) f
• Spanish: malestar (es) m
• Swedish: sjukdomskänsla

ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不安 (zh) (bù'ān)

• Dutch: teneergeslagenheid f
• Finnish: mielipaha (fi), pahanolontunne
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 不快 (ja) (ふかい, fukai), 不安 (ja) (ふあん, fuan)
• Persian: ناخوشی (fa) (nâxoši)
• Russian: дискомфо́рт (ru) m (diskomfórt)

Anagrams

• Malesia, seamail

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.lɛz/

Etymology 1

mal- +‎ aise

Noun

malaise m (plural malaises)

1. malaise, uneasiness, cringe

Etymology 2

see malais

Adjective

malaise

1. feminine singular of malais

Further reading

• “malaise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.