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wellness|ˈwɛlnɪs|
[f. well a. + -ness.]
The state of being well or in good health.
Rather a nonce-wd. than of settled status like illness.
1654Sir A. Johnston (Ld. Wariston) Diary (S.H.S.) II. 197, I..blessed God..for my daughter's wealnesse. c1655D. Osborne Lett. xxviii. (1903) 126 You..never send me any of the new phrases of the town... Pray what is meant by wellness and unwellness? 1791T. Twining Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 145 When I say ‘well’, I can't be supposed to mean the wellness that one should predicate of a professor who makes those instruments his study. 1836Carlyle New Lett. (1904) I. 33, I feel really very well at present; and could almost persuade myself it were the natural state of wellness. 1864Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 210 Some weeks of such comparative ease and well-ness. 1896Mrs. Drew in A. C. Benson Life Abp. Benson (1899) II. 774 We were all struck by his wellness. 1905H. H. Colvill Stepping Stone 264 With an old man like that, wellness was illness, and illness didn't seem not so very different from wellness.
▸ attrib. orig. U.S. Designating health care which is preventative rather than curative, esp. in wellness centre, wellness programme.
1977Washington Post 30 Nov. b11/1 There are institutes, movements and foundations—Esalen, Arica, Scientology, Synanon, Wellness Resource. 1983Fortune 2 May 110/1 Wellness programs, with their corny names, are no mere frill like executive saunas. 1987Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 1020/3 By subscribing to the local wellness council a company..would receive a consultative service. 2000Cape Times (Cape Town) 19 July i. 5/4 If they are positive, they can be put on a wellness programme that includes good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. |