different between cachexia vs malaise

English

Etymology

From Late Latin cachexia or French cachexie, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kakhexía), from ????? (kakós, “bad; injurious”) + ???? (héxis, “act of having; habit or state of body”) (ultimately from ??? (ékh?, “to have”)) + -?? (-ia, suffix added to adjectives to form abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??k?ks??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??k?ksi?/
• Hyphenation: ca?che?xia

Noun

cachexia (countable and uncountable, plural cachexias or cachexiae)

1. (pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease. [from mid 16th c.]

   Synonym: cachexy

Derived terms

Translations

Notes

References

Further reading

• cachexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cachexia at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”). Compare ill at ease.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mæ?le?z/
• IPA^(key): /m??le?z/, /mæ-/, /-?l?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophone: Malays

Noun

malaise (countable and uncountable, plural malaises)

1. A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.

   Synonyms: unease, doldrums, ill at ease
2. An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.

   Synonyms: melancholy, weltschmerz, angst

   • 2003, Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War:

     Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as their expensive furnishings, but worst of all, they had war instead of peace" (2.65.2).

3. Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.

Related terms

• disease

Translations

Further reading

• malaise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Malesia, seamail

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.l?z/

Etymology 1

mal- +? aise

Noun

malaise m (plural malaises)

1. malaise, uneasiness, cringe

Etymology 2

see malais

Adjective

malaise

1. feminine singular of malais

Further reading

• “malaise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch malaise, from French malaise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma?lai?s?]
• Hyphenation: ma?lai?sê

Noun

malaise or malaisê

1. (economics) depression, a period of major economic contraction.
2. (medicine) malaise, a feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.

Further reading

• “malaise” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.