different between hygiene vs healthy

English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ??????? (?????) (hugiein? (tékhn?), literally “art of health”), from ???????? (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ????? (hugi?s, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?'j?n, IPA^(key): /?ha??d?i?n/

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

3. Cleanliness.

4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• hygiene in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• hygiene in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

English

Etymology

From health +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?l.?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?i

Adjective

healthy (comparative healthier or more healthy, superlative healthiest or most healthy)

1. Enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit: well.

   Antonym: unhealthy
2. Conducive to health.

   Synonym: healthful

   Antonym: unhealthy
3. Evincing health.
4. (figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.

Usage notes

When a clearer distinction is intended, healthy is used to describe the state of the object, and healthful describes its ability to impart health to the recipient. Vegetables in good condition are both healthy (i.e., not rotten or diseased) and healthful (i.e., they improve the eaters' health, compared to eating junk food). By contrast, a poisonous plant can be healthy, but it is not healthful to eat it.

Derived terms

Related terms

• heal
• healing
• whole

Translations

Further reading

• healthy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• healthy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.