Meanings
plural insalubrities
- uncountableusuallyThe condition of being insalubrious; unhealthiness, unwholesomeness
[S]uch an one […] recalls as a vision of Paradise the land he has learnt to love; he exaggerates the insalubrity of a northern climate; he bewails the wretched formality of our civilised life, and so, back to the distant solitudes flies his recollection like a dove to the wilderness.
1874, Georg August Schweinfurth, chapter I, in Ellen E. Frewer, transl., The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa, from 1868 to 1871, second edition, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, And Searle, translation of Im Herzen von Afrika, Botanical Ardour
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being insalubrious and debilitating
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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