Malaise

//məˈleɪz//

Synonyms for "malaise" (264 found)

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Closest matches (53)

Strong matches (79)

Related words (132)

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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derived

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etymologically related_to

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is a

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related to

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Translations

47 translations across 24 languages.

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Arabic

4 entries
  • أَسَف noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • تَوَعُّك noun (bodily feeling)
  • عَلَز noun (bodily feeling)
  • كَآبَة noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • безпокойство noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • неразположение noun (bodily feeling)

Catalan

1 entries
  • malestar noun (bodily feeling)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 不安 noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • 不舒服 noun (bodily feeling)
  • 不適 /不适 noun (bodily feeling)
  • 欠安 noun (bodily feeling)

Czech

1 entries
  • malátnost noun (bodily feeling)

Dutch

2 entries
  • ongesteldheid noun (bodily feeling)
  • teneergeslagenheid noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)

Finnish

4 entries
  • huonovointisuus noun (bodily feeling)
  • mielipaha noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • pahanolontunne noun (bodily feeling)
  • pahanolontunne noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)

French

1 entries
  • malaise noun (bodily feeling)

German

2 entries
  • Unbehagen noun (bodily feeling)
  • Unwohlsein noun (bodily feeling)

Greek

1 entries
  • αδιαθεσία noun (bodily feeling)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • gyengélkedés noun (bodily feeling)
  • rossz közérzet noun (bodily feeling)

Irish

2 entries
  • easláinte noun (bodily feeling)
  • meath-thinneas noun (bodily feeling)

Italian

1 entries
  • malessere noun (bodily feeling)

Japanese

3 entries
  • 不安 noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • 不快 noun (bodily feeling)
  • 不快 noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)

Korean

2 entries
  • 불안감 noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • 불쾌감 noun (bodily feeling)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • njederjeměśe noun (bodily feeling)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • малаксаност noun (bodily feeling)

Persian

2 entries
  • ناخوشی noun (bodily feeling)
  • ناخوشی noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • mal-estar noun (bodily feeling)

Romanian

1 entries
  • indispoziție noun (bodily feeling)

Russian

2 entries
  • дискомфо́рт noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • недомога́ние noun (bodily feeling)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • malaksalost noun (bodily feeling)

Spanish

1 entries
  • malestar noun (bodily feeling)

Swedish

4 entries
  • illamående noun (bodily feeling)
  • olust noun (bodily feeling)
  • olust noun (ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression)
  • sjukdomskänsla noun (bodily feeling)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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Do you think your feeling of malaise is related to your job?

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Saltsman thinks the abundance of options might be the cause of day-to-day malaise in modern American society.

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The more time I spend at work, the greater my sense of malaise, and the greater my need for rest at home.

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As we talked, I realized that the source of my malaise was a kind of cognitive dissonance, where I could not reconcile the values and ways of life that I had come to embrace during my time away with the ones that seemed so opposed and unchanging at home.

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