Crossword Dictionary
malady
malady - n
any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?"
synonyms
affection, ail, ailment, bug, complaint, complication, condition, disease, disorder, distemper, distemperature, fever, ill, illness, infirmity, sickness, trouble
in a sentence
in the olden days people were always suffering from some unknown malady
Perhaps Bennedith’s attraction to Mercuro is rooted in a shared existential malady.
etymology
"a physical disorder or disease," late 13c., maladie, from Old French maladie "sickness, illness, disease" (13c.), abstract noun from malade "ill" (12c.), from Late Latin male habitus "doing poorly, feeling sick," literally "ill-conditioned," from Latin male "badly" (see mal-) + habitus, past participle of habere "to have, hold" (from PIE root *ghabh- "to give or receive"). Extended sense of "moral or mental disorder, disordered state or condition" is from 14c. Related: Maladies.