wellness

UK/ˈwɛl.nɪs/US/ˈwɛl.nɪs/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,241 of 15,258leans written

Wellness is the state of being healthy in body and mind. Workplace wellness, a wellness programme, wellness industry.

The word carries a claim: that health is something broader than the absence of disease and is worth working at deliberately. It is also a marketing term attached to a very large industry, much of which sells things with no evidence behind them. Note well; and that the word is old, though this use is modern.

Definitions of wellness

1nounwellnessThe state of being healthy in body and mind.B2+
“The company offers yoga classes as part of its staff wellness programme.”

wellness is a state of health.

Where it comes from

Middle English welnes is well plus -ness. The word is old, though its current use dates from the twentieth century.

Middle English
welnes
English, today
wellness

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

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wellness in the wild

Companies most commonly subsidize workplace wellness programs in the hope they will reduce costs on employee health benefits like health insurance in the long run.
Workplace wellness
Specific types of wellness tourism include meditation and multiple types of yoga, such as classical or exercise-based, as well as treatments that include conventional, alternative, complementary or herbal.
Wellness tourism
The former is a type of spiritual tourism; the latter is related both to spiritual and to wellness tourism.
Yoga tourism

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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