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malaise
What does malaise mean?
malaise (noun): physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use malaise in a sentence?
- Do you think your feeling of malaise is related to your job? (Tatoeba sentence #5208643 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce malaise?
/mæˈleɪz/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does malaise come from?
From French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
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