different between wellness vs hygiene

English

Etymology

From Middle English welnes, welenes, equivalent to well +? -ness.

Noun

wellness (countable and uncountable, plural wellnesses)

1. The quality or state of being in good health.
2. The process of learning about and engaging in behaviors that are likely to result in optimal health.

Translations

Anagrams

• enswells

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wellness.

Noun

wellness m or f (uncountable)

1. (very rare) wellness (good health)

   Synonym: benessere

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