The degree to which someone or something is in, or promotes, sound health.
Reach for it when evaluating overall condition when a more specific health measure is unavailable
Glossy leaves alone do not prove the tree's healthiness.
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everyday
Fits when the ordinary condition itself is being discussed
Careful Health is broader and more natural, while healthiness often means a judged degree.
warm
Fits when energy and liveliness are the clearest evidence
Careful A calm or chronically ill person may have health without conspicuous vitality.
warm
Fits when positive habits and felt well-being shape the assessment
Careful Wellness can sound commercial and is less suited to plants or systems.
professional
robustness
Fits when strength under changing conditions is being measured
Careful Robustness captures resilience more than the full state of health.
formal
soundness
Fits when freedom from defect and reliable condition matter
Careful Soundness can concern reasoning or construction rather than living health.
literary
salubrity
Fits when the health-promoting quality of a place is meant
Careful This rare noun is unsuitable when readers need immediate clarity.
overall healthiness
The vet assessed the flock's overall healthiness before winter.
sign of healthiness
Flexible new growth is one sign of healthiness in the vine.
measure of healthiness
Species variety became a useful measure of healthiness in the marsh.
Definitions and examples are written for this site. How words are chosen Recording: Flame, not lame, American accent, from Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Updated
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