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The illness with no symptoms except everything feeling slightly wrong.
means A vague, hard-to-pinpoint feeling of unease or being unwell, without a clear cause.
from From French malaise, stitched together from mal ('bad,' from Latin malus) and aise ('ease,' the same root as the English word 'ease'). So, quite literally, 'bad-ease' — the opposite of comfort, with no more precise diagnosis offered. English borrowed it whole in the 18th century, keeping its vagueness intact, which is rather the point.
- origin
- French for bad ease, literally not-okay-ness
- medical use
- doctors cite it when tests find nothing
- political cousin
- Carter never said malaise in the malaise speech
- vibe check
- tired but can't say why