ill health vs injury

injury vs ill health

ill health and injury both are nouns.

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

As nouns, injury is a hyponym of ill health; that is, injury 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
injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

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

ill health (noun)	injury (noun)
a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain	wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
	an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
	an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
	a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
	any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Difference between ill health and injury

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