Insalubrity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness uncountable, usually

    "[S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness."

  2. 2
    the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating wordnet

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"[S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness."

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