wellness

W4E1L1L1N1E1S1S1
US, UK/ˈwɛl.nɪs/Australia/ˈwel.nɪs/

noun

The quality or state of being in good health (sometimes emphasizing both health and safety); mental and physical soundness.

“health and wellness”

Similar
wellbeingwell-beinghealth
Opposite
illnessunwellness
OriginMiddle English welnes →
CommonScrabble 11
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Meanings

nounwellness (countable and uncountable, plural wellnesses)

plural wellnesses

  1. countableuncountableThe quality or state of being in good health (sometimes emphasizing both health and safety); mental and physical soundness.

    health and wellness

    3 more examples

    Diet and exercise are cornerstones of wellness.

    The police conducted a wellness check.

    Abdominal fat accumulation, known as visceral fat, has "long been recognized as metabolically harmful," according to Philip Rabito, M.D., a specialist in endocrinology, weight loss and wellness in New York City.

    2026 January 6, Angelica Stable, “More Americans may be classified as obese under new definition, study suggests”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2026

    Synonyms: wellbeing, well-being

  2. countableuncountableThe process of learning about and engaging in behaviors that are likely to result in optimal health.

    She made a fortune as a wellness guru.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe quality or state of being in good health (sometimes emphasizing both health and safety); mental and physical soundness.

Similar
wellbeingwell-being

More synonyms by meaning

nouna healthy state of wellbeing free from disease

Similar
health
Opposite
illnessunwellness
Broader
wellbeingwell-beingwelfare
Also see
healthwell-being

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishwelnes
  2. Englishwellness

From Middle English welnes, welenes. By surface analysis, well + -ness.

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Translations

Arabic صِحَّة, سَلامة
  • صِحَّة (ṣiḥḥa)The quality or state of being in good health.
  • سَلامة (salāma)The quality or state of being in good health.
  • عافِيَة (ʕāfiya)The quality or state of being in good health.
Dutch wellness
  • wellnessThe quality or state of being in good health.
Esperanto komforto
  • komfortoThe quality or state of being in good health.
Estonian heaolu
  • heaoluThe quality or state of being in good health.
Finnish hyvinvointi
  • hyvinvointiThe quality or state of being in good health.
French bien-être
  • bien-êtreThe quality or state of being in good health.
German Wohlbefinden, Wellness
  • WohlbefindenThe quality or state of being in good health.
  • WellnessThe quality or state of being in good health.
Italian benessere
  • benessereThe quality or state of being in good health.
Korean 웰빙
  • 웰빙 (welbing)The quality or state of being in good health.
Persian سَلامَتی
  • سَلامَتی (salâmati)The quality or state of being in good health.
Romanian bunăstare
  • bunăstareThe quality or state of being in good health.
Russian здравствование
  • здравствование (zdravstvovanije)The quality or state of being in good health.
Spanish ben ser
  • ben serThe quality or state of being in good health.
Cite this entry
APA

wellness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wellness

MLA

“wellness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wellness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wellness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wellness.

Source: wellness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.