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Etymology edit

From unhealthy +‎ -ness.

Noun edit

unhealthiness (usually uncountable, plural unhealthinesses)

  1. The state of being unhealthy.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 27, in Jane Eyre[1]:
      [] I possess an old house, Ferndean Manor, even more retired and hidden than this, where I could have lodged her safely enough, had not a scruple about the unhealthiness of the situation, in the heart of a wood, made my conscience recoil from the arrangement.
    • 1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
      He looked elegant and vulnerable, his eyes edging away from contact and set into a face of exquisite unhealthiness.

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