unhealthiness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.48 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "He looked elegant and vulnerable, his eyes edging away from contact and set into a face of exquisite unhealthiness."
Etymology
Etymology tree English unhealthy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English unhealthiness From unhealthy + -ness.