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From Middle English maladie, from Old French maladie (“sickness, illness, disease”), from malade (“ill, sick”), from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”), 1st century AD. See also malice and habit.

malady (plural maladies)

  1. Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
    • a. 1812, Joseph Stevens Buckminster, It is Good for Me, that I have been Afflicted (sermon)
      The maladies of the body may prove medicines of the mind.
  2. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

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a disease, illness, or other health disorder

malady

  1. alternative form of maladie