A feeling of weariness, sickness, or disease; a state of mental or physical languor or discomfort.
From Latin aegritudo (sickness/disease), derived from aeger (sick). This English word preserves an Old Latin root that connects illness to a general state of being unwell or weary.
This beautiful, archaic word perfectly captures that specific feeling of being sick when you're not actually sick—the heavy tiredness, the malaise, the sense that something's not quite right with you. Medieval doctors used it constantly when describing patients' mysterious complaints.
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