uneasiness

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malaise | American Dictionary

malaise
noun[ U ]
us/məˈleɪz, mæ-, -ˈlez/
a general feeling of bad health or lack of energy in a person, group, or society:
Many think there’s a growing moral malaise in society.

Examples of malaise

malaise
History of axillary or elbow lymphadenopathy and malaise were present in two cases.
It believed this group both personally unhappy and a source of malaise for the rest of society.
In the second scenario, a patient is suffering from fevers, malaise, and a painful blistering rash after infection with smallpox.
Broadsheets are read by the better educated whose class, income and status may make them less prone to political malaise.
Table 7 shows that the malaise scores vary rather little and unsystematically among different groupings of media users.
Some patients may suffer from severe abdominal cramps, fever, chills, headache and myalgia, nausea and malaise.
At the same time, there is little evidence that television news induces political malaise.
At the same time, there is little evidence that newspaper reading is associated with political malaise.
The tabloids, it seems, are not associated with mobilization, but then nor are they associated with much political malaise either.
Humans suffering from infectious diseases also report malaise and difficulties with concentration.
The syndrome of malaise, shortness of breath and feeling a little tremulous is relatively useless in distinguishing real exposure from excessive anxiety.
The associations between tabloid reading and both mobilization and malaise are quite weak, and tabloid readers differ little from non-readers.
He offers a sense of space, of where the current malaise festers.
Only that sort of research will ever lead social psychology out of its current malaise that focuses on positive and negative aspects of human behavior.
If the period 1947-51 was characterized by government repression, the years 1951-5 were distinguished by uncertainty and malaise.
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