hale and heartiness

English

Alternative forms

• hale-and-heartiness

Etymology

hale and hearty +‎ -ness

Noun

hale and heartiness (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being hale and hearty.
   • 2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow, Weidenfeld & Nicolson:

     As for his own relative hale and heartiness, he attributed it to drinking a bottle of beer per night; ‘all the beer drinkers seem to be keeping pretty fit’.