WELLBEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wellbeing mean? 

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

1. a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELLBEING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

eudaemonia; eudaimonia; upbeat; welfare; well-being; wellbeing

Context example:

the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles

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

prosperity; successfulness (the condition of prospering; having good fortune)

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

fool's paradise (an illusory state of wellbeing)

health; wellness (a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease)

 Context examples 

The study is the first to examine the influence of both mothers’ and fathers’ wellbeing before and after birth on children’s adjustment at 14 and 24 months of age.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

You don't need to exert a lot of extra effort in order to improve your wellbeing by being more mindful while you're moving around.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The decline in sharks has knock-on effects that might negatively affect human wellbeing too.

(New way to save endangered sharks – and our seafood, SciDev.Net)

Surroundings or conditions that provide the means and opportunity to achieve physical and/or mental wellbeing.

(Healthy Environment, NCI Thesaurus)

While naturalistic sounds and 'green' environments have frequently been linked with promoting relaxation and wellbeing, until now there has been no scientific consensus as to how these effects come about.

(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Filling this “cooling gap” links with the SDGs on affordable and clean energy, poverty reduction, health and wellbeing, and sustainable cities and communities.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)

An international organization with a mission to promote the wellbeing of women and to raise the standards of practice in obstetrics and gynecology.

(Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, NCI Thesaurus)

Changes in the timing of spring leaves and flowers could set off a cascade of effects, threatening species' wellbeing, disrupting agriculture and potentially causing longer or more severe allergy seasons, said Robert Guralnick, the study's senior author and curator of informatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

(Urbanization delays spring plant growth in warm regions, National Science Foundation)

The researchers found that the prenatal wellbeing of first-time mothers had a direct impact on the behaviour of their children by the time they were two years old.

(Prenatal parental stress linked to behaviour problems in toddlers, University of Cambridge)

Chih-Hsiang "Jason" Yang, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California who led the study, said the results suggest a simple way for people to boost their wellbeing throughout the day.

(Mindful Movement May Help Lower Stress, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)