Indisposition

Definitions: Indisposition

Indisposition

Noun

1. A slight illness.

2. A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed".

Date "indisposition" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Indisposition \In*dis`po*si"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression indisposition.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Indisposition

Synonyms: disinclination (n), hesitancy (n), hesitation (n), reluctance (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Noun: disease; illness, sickness; Adjective: ailing; " all the ills that flesh is heir to "; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper, distemperature.
Unwillingness	Noun: unwillingness; Adjective: indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference; backwardness; Adjective: slowness; want of alacrity,want of readiness; indocility; (obstinacy).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Indisposition

English words defined with "indisposition": taken ♦ Undisposedness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "indisposition": Diplomatic Cold ♦ Teeth. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Indisposition" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (discomfort, disgruntlement, indisposition, malaise, seediness), German (indisposition), Swedish (indisposition).

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	From Central America I have received assurances of the most friendly kind and a gratifying application for our good offices to remove a supposed indisposition toward that Government in a neighboring State.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Indisposition" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indisposition" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "indisposition"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zaifllëk (uncomfortableness), sëmundje e lehtë, mospëlqim (antipathy, aversion, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disrelish, distaste, non-compliance, objection, scunner), mosdashje (aversion, disinclination, dislike, reluctance, unwillingness). (various references)

Arabic		‏نفور (antipathy, aversion, disaffection, disinclination, dislike, distaste, estrangement, offish, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, startle), ‏وعكة, ‏حيض (course, flow, monthly), ‏توعك (ail, illness, malady, malaise), ‏إنحراف الصحة, ‏إنزعاج (annoyance, botcher, bother, disturbance, malaise). (various references)

Bulgarian		временно неразположение, несклонност, неразположение (ailment, discomfort, distaste, pip), неохота (chariness, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness), нежелание (aversion, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness), неблагоразположение, лошо отношение, леко заболяване. (various references)

Chinese		病痛 (ailment, slight illness). (various references)

Czech		indispozice (ailment). (various references)

Danish		indisposition (mild disease), upasselighed (mild disease). (various references)

Dutch		indispositie (mild disease), ongesteldheid (mild disease). (various references)

Finnish		huonovointisuus. (various references)

French		indisposition. (various references)

German		indisposition, unwohlsein (malaise, unease), unwilligkeit (indignation, reluctance, unwillingness), unpässlichkeit (ailment, ill health, malaise), Bagatellkrankheit (mild disease), abneigung (abhorrence, animosity, antipathy, aversion, disinclination, dislike, distaste, objection, reluctance, repugnance). (various references)

Greek		αδιαθεσία (ailment, distemper, malaise, mild disease, sickliness, sickness). (various references)

Hebrew		מחל�" קל�", מחוש (ache, ail, infirmity, pain). (various references)

Hungarian		gyengélkedés (ailment, ill health, malaise, upset, valetudinarianism). (various references)

Indonesian		keengganan (aversion, dislike, reluctance). (various references)

Italian		indisposizione (ailment, disorder, malaise, mild disease, upset). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不予 (emperor's illness, unhappiness), 不例 (sickness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふれい (official announcement, proclamation, sickness), ふよ (allowance, assignment, distribution, emperor's illness, endowment, grant, unhappiness). (various references)

Manx		lhiastid (diffidence, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, languidness, languor, lassitude, laziness, reluctance, sloth, slowness, sluggishness), lag-laynt (ill health), aslaynt (ailment, illness, unfitness, unhealthiness). (various references)

Norwegian		uvilje (grudge), utilpasshet. (various references)

Pig Latin		indispositionay

Portuguese		indisposição (colorwash, colourwash, crossness, distemper, illness, malapert), pouco inclinado a (ill at ease), má disposição para. (various references)

Romanian		indispoziţie (ailment, disorder, distemper, hump, malaise, miff, pip), boalã uşoarã, aversiune (abhorrence, aversion, detestation of, disrelish, idiosyncrasy, loathing, objection, quarrel, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), antipatie (antipathy, disinclination, dislike, distaste, enmity, quarrel, repugnance). (various references)

Russian		нерасположение (disrelish), нездоровье (ailment, ailments, illness), недомогание (complaint, distress, malaise, queasiness). (various references)

Scottish		trèalamh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neraspoloženje (dislike, miff), nelagodnost (discomfort, malaise). (various references)

Spanish		indisposición (ailment, illness, mild disease, queerness, seediness, upset). (various references)

Swedish		indisposition, opasslighet (disorder), obenägenhet (disiclination, disinclination). (various references)

Turkish		isteksizlik (aversion, disinclination, reluctance, repugnance, unwillingness), rahatsızlık (ailment, annoyance, complaint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disease, disquiet, distemper, disturbance, draft, dysphoria, embarrassment, fidget, harassment, ill, illness, inconvenience, inquietude, malaise, nuisance, restlessness, seediness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), keyifsizlik (ailment, dejection, huff, malaise, seediness), gönülsüzlük (disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness). (various references)

Ukranian		нездужання (ail, ailing, ailment, distemper, malaise, queasiness, theism), небажання (reluctance), неприхильність (dislike, repulsion). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự se mình (indisposedness), sự không sãn lòng (indisposedness), sự không ưa (disinclination, dislike, disrelish, distaste, indisposedness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	imbecillitas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "indisposition": indispositions. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indisposition" (pronounced 'In*dis`po*si"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-i-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: disposition.
	-4 letters: iodopsins, positions.
	-5 letters: iodopsin, opinions, opsonins, position, sponsion.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-i-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: indispositions.
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