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leisure sickness

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables
leisure sick-ness
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A phenomenon when people, often high-achievers or workaholics, develop flu-like symptoms (headaches, fatigue, body aches, nausea) at the start of weekends or vacations because their bodies, used to high stress, relax and become vulnerable to illness, or because stress hormones drop, weakening the immune system.

Inflected Forms

leisure sicknesses (plural)

Phrases

paradise syndrome

Frequently Paired Words

paradise syndrome

Questions

What does leisure sickness mean?
A phenomenon when people, often high-achievers or workaholics, develop flu-like symptoms (headaches, fatigue, body aches, nausea) at the start of weekends or vacations because their bodies, used to high stress, relax and become vulnerable to illness, or because stress hormones drop, weakening the immune system.

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