ill health vs infection

infection vs ill health

ill health and infection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ill health	Yes	No	No	No
infection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, infection is a hyponym of ill health; that is, infection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ill health:

ill health: a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain
infection: the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

Other hyponyms of ill health include dyscrasia, illness, malady, sickness, unwellness, invalidism, biliousness, pathology, affliction, harm, hurt, injury, trauma, softness, unfitness.

ill health (noun)	infection (noun)
a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain	moral corruption or contamination
	(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
	the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people
	an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
	(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
	(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
	the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

Difference between ill health and infection

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