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indisposition

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English indisposicioun, from Middle French indisposicion.

  1. A mild illness, the state of being indisposed.

    I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.

    She began not to understand a word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse herself.

  2. A mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
  3. A state of not being disposed to do something; disinclination; unwillingness.

    He argued that the progress of wealth could be impeded not only by an indisposition to produce, but also by an indisposition to consume […]

  4. A bad mood or disposition.

    1597, Francis Bacon, Essays Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?