malady

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

   As, to prevent our maladies unseen, / We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.

2. 2
   noun

   A moral or mental defect or disorder.

   Love's a malady without a cure.

3. 3
   noun

   impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

4. 4
   noun

   any unwholesome or desperate condition

Etymology

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.