CONVALESCENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convalescence mean? 

• CONVALESCENCE (noun)
  The noun CONVALESCENCE has 1 sense:

1. gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury

  Familiarity information: CONVALESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVALESCENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

convalescence; recovery; recuperation

Hypernyms ("convalescence" is a kind of...):

healing (the natural process by which the body repairs itself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convalescence"):

lysis (recuperation in which the symptoms of an acute disease gradually subside)

rally (a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness)

Derivation:

convalesce (get over an illness or shock)

convalescent (returning to health after illness or debility)

 Context examples 

I wrote, and this exertion greatly fatigued me; but my convalescence had commenced, and proceeded regularly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was a divine spring, and the season contributed greatly to my convalescence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My father had often, during my imprisonment, heard me make the same assertion; when I thus accused myself, he sometimes seemed to desire an explanation, and at others he appeared to consider it as the offspring of delirium, and that, during my illness, some idea of this kind had presented itself to my imagination, the remembrance of which I preserved in my convalescence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)