unsoundnessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsaʊn(d)nəs/, U.S. /ˌənˈsaʊn(d)nəs/ 1.
a. The quality of being physically or materially unsound. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun]
unhealc700
untrumnessc897
adleeOE
sicknessc967
cothec1000
unhealthc1000
woe?a1200
ail?c1225
lying?c1225
maladyc1275
unsoundc1275
feebless1297
languora1375
languishc1384
disease1393
aegritudea1400
lamea1400
maleasea1400
soughta1400
wilc1400
malefaction?a1425
firmityc1426
unwholesomenessc1449
ill1450
languenta1500
distemperancea1535
the valley of the shadow of death1535
affect?1537
affection?1541
distemperature1541
inability1547
sickliness1565
languishment1576
cause1578
unhealthfulness1589
crazedness1593
languorment1593
evilness1599
strickenness1599
craziness1602
distemper1604
unsoundness1605
invaletude1623
unhealthiness1634
achaque1647
unwellness1653
disailment1657
insalubrity1668
faintiness1683
queerness1687
invalidity1690
illness1692
ill health1698
ailment1708
illing1719
invalescence1724
peakingness1727
sickishness1727
valetudinariness1742
ailingness1776
brash1786
invalidism1794
poorliness1814
diseasement1826
invalidship1830
valetudinarianism1839
ailing1862
invalidhood1863
megrims1870
pourriture1890
immersement1903
bug1918
condition1920
the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [noun]
unfastness1398
debility1570
insolidity1578
unsoundness1605
tenderness1708
flimsiness1816
immateriality1886
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun]
vice1398
undisposedness1600
unsoundness1605
vitiosity1647
craziness1664
viciousness1669
disintegrity1861
rattiness1898
spoilage1928
1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. V 2 b The bond of common feare, is the strongest indeed of all other,..and the daunger once past falles in sunder of his owne vnsoundnesse.
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. i. 79 When through our disorder..we haue wrought their [sc. hawks'] vnsoundnes, we forget to looke backe.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry III. 449 If these [livers] were livid or corrupted, they offered others, as the unsoundness of the first might be owing to some casual distemper.
1820 Starkie Rep. Cases N.P. II. 81 If a horse be affected by any malady which renders him less serviceable for a permanency, I have no doubt that it is an unsoundness.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xix. 333 The unsoundness of ice at and near its melting point.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 189/2 A pimple on the body where the saddle would cover it is an unsoundness in a hunter while it lasts.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 189/2 A temporary cough is also an unsoundness.
b. Unwholesomeness.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [noun]
infirmity1481
unwholesomenessa1513
contagiousness1530
evilness1563
malignity1585
unhealthfulness1598
untemperaturea1604
unhealthsomeness1613
healthlessness1655
unsoundness1660
insalubrity1663
unhealthiness1666
unsalubrity1694
malignancy1732
pestilentiousness1748
mal-influence1792
insanitariness1881
insanitation1884
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 370 A Colony..displanted for the unsoundnesse of the ayre.
2.
a. The quality of being unsound in belief, opinion, principles, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun] > quality of
fallacy1566
unsoundness1597
erroneousness1624
disinvalidity1625
ungroundedness1637
unsolidity1736
erroneosity1840
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. 141 By reason of vnsoundnes in the highest articles of Christian faith.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 20 They need not carry such an unworthy suspicion over the Preachers of Gods word, as to tutor their unsoundnesse with the Abcie of a Liturgy.
a1671 S. Mather Irenicum (1680) 3 Fundamental unsoundness and Corruption of Judgment.
1769 J. Gill Body Doctrinal Divinity II. ii. 302 They..agree to differ..and not charge one another with unsoundness and heterodoxy.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xvii. 259 It was not uncommon formerly to suspect every one who professed to pursue the light of nature, of unsoundness of principles.
1841 Mrs. Mozley Lost Brooch II. 71 Every sermon of his betrays his unsoundness.
1877 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. I. 11/2 The breach was widened by mutual accusations of unsoundness in the faith.
b. Of doctrine, principles, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > error in belief or opinion > [noun]
misthoughtc1300
error1340
vanityc1386
err1509
delirium1599
unsoundnessa1600
misknowing1616
errancy1623
pseudodoxy1651
apophenia1999
a1600 R. Hooker Answere Supplic. W. Travers (1612) 8 Any thing that shalbe spoken concerning the vnsoundnes of my Doctrine.
1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 61 The unsoundnes of his or theire religion.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 507. ¶6 The Unsoundness of this Principle..is..universally acknowledged.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 551 The unsoundness of the conclusion..might inspire a reasonable distrust of the correctness of the persuasions.
1881 B. F. Westcott & F. J. A. Hort New Test. in Orig. Greek II. Introd. ii. 71 The presumed unsoundness of the text.
3. The quality of being mentally unsound.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness
woodnessc1000
woodshipc1000
madshipc1225
woodc1275
woodhead1303
ragec1330
amentiaa1398
madnessa1398
frenzy?a1400
madheada1400
maddingc1400
alienation?a1425
furiosity?a1475
derverye1480
forcenery1480
furiousnessc1500
unwitness1527
unwitting1527
demencya1529
straughtness1530
insaniea1538
brainsickness1541
lunacy1541
amenty1557
distraughtness1576
dementation?1583
straughtedness1583
insanity1590
crazedness1593
bedlam1598
dementia1598
insanation1599
non compos mentis1607
distraction1609
daffinga1614
disinsanitya1625
cerebrosity1647
vecordy1656
fanaticness1662
non-sanity1675
insaneness1730
craziness1755
hydrophobia1760
vecord1788
derangement1800
vesania1800
a screw loose1810
unsoundness1825
dementedness1833
craze1841
psychosis1847
crackiness1861
feyness1873
crack1891
meshugas1898
white ant1908
crackedness1910
pottiness1933
loopiness1939
wackiness1941
screwballism1942
kink1959
1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 308 Perhaps no person can be a poet..without a certain unsoundness of mind.
1856 J. W. H. Williams (title) On Unsoundness of Mind, in its medical and legal considerations.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 27 119 The soundness or unsoundness of mind of the alleged lunatic.
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