ˈmalədē, -di noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English maladie, from Old French, from malade sick (from Latin male habitus undernourished, feeble, from male badly + habitus, past participle of habēre to have, hold) + -ie -y — more at mal- , give
1. : a disease, distemper, disorder, or indisposition of the animal body proceeding from impaired or defective functions
told by his physicians that he had a fatal malady — Willa Cather
2. : an unwholesome or disordered state or condition
some deep malady of the soul — Van Wyck Brooks
analyze the nature and the causes of the malady from which the nation suffers — Reinhold Niebuhr
the critical malady of our age — Louis Kronenberger