Healths

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Refers to conditions or states of physical, mental, or social well-being experienced by individuals or groups ; instances or examples of overall wellness or fitness ; various aspects or factors that contribute to the quality of life and function in living beings
2. Denotes multiple cases or types of bodily and psychological soundness or vitality ; distinct manifestations of a person's or population's fitness and absence of disease ; different considerations of maintaining or improving optimal functioning and life quality
3. Indicates various states or manifestations of well-being in mind, body, or social environments ; the collection of conditions representing how healthy or unhealthy one may be ; the assorted criteria or dimensions related to sustaining life and preventing illness

Etymology: "Health" began as a word about wholeness rather than the absence of sickness. Its Old English ancestor "hǣlþ" grew from the same root as "hale" and "whole", with the abstract suffix "-th" attached, so the core idea was simply being sound and complete in body. A close relative, "wholth", survived as a doublet of it, showing how the same stem split into two forms over time. "Healths" is the plural of that noun, so it refers to several states of wellbeing or, in older toasting use, to multiple occasions of drinking to someone's good condition. The plural reads naturally because "health" is a count-like abstraction in these uses, a single condition that can be considered in different instances.

Synonyms: well-being, fitness

Antonyms: illness, sickness, disease