English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɛlˈbiː.ɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -iːɪŋ
Noun
well-being (uncountable)
- A state of health, happiness or prosperity.
- Synonym: wellness
- Antonym: ill-being
2024 July 4, Lilit Marcus, “This country has a national happiness index. But what is it really like to live there?”, in CNN[1]:Most foreigners who have heard of Bhutan know two things: the country charges international visitors a $100/day sustainable development fee (aka tourist tax), and that it is the birthplace of the Gross National Happiness Index, a system intended to look after the well-being of citizens and the environment.
Translations
state of health, happiness or prosperity
- Akkadian: 𒁲 (šulmu, SILIM)
- Arabic: رَفَاهِيَة (ar) f (rafāhiya)
- Armenian: բարօրություն (hy) (barōrutʻyun)
- Asturian: bienestar m
- Belarusian: дабрабы́т m (dabrabýt), даста́так m (dastátak) (prosperity)
- Breton: hevoud (br) m
- Bulgarian: благоде́нствие (bg) n (blagodénstvie), благополу́чие (bg) n (blagopolúčie), благосъстоя́ние (bg) n (blagosǎstojánie)
- Catalan: benestar (ca) m, benanança (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 福利 (zh) (fúlì), 福祉 (zh) (fúzhǐ)
- Czech: blahobyt (cs) m
- Danish: velbefindende n, velvære c
- Dutch: welzijn (nl) n
- Esperanto: bonstato bonfaro
- Finnish: hyvinvointi (fi)
- French: bien-être (fr) m
- Galician: benestar (gl) m
- Georgian: კეთილდღეობა (ḳetildɣeoba)
- German: Wohlbefinden (de) n, Wohl (de) n
- Greek: ευζωία (el) f (evzoḯa), καλοπέραση (el) f (kalopérasi)
- Haitian Creole: byennèt
- Hindi: कल्याण (hi) m (kalyāṇ)
- Hungarian: jólét (hu)
- Indonesian: kesejahteraan (id)
- Irish: folláine f
- Italian: benessere (it) m
- Japanese: 福利 (ja) (ふくり, fukuri), 福祉 (ja) (ふくし, fukushi)
- Korean: 복리(福利) (ko) (bongni), 복지(福祉) (ko) (bokji)
- Latvian: labklājība f
- Luxembourgish: Wuel n
- Macedonian: благосостојба f (blagosostojba)
- Malay: kesejahteraan
- Malayalam: ക്ഷേമം (ml) (kṣēmaṁ), സൗഖ്യം (ml) (saukhyaṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: velferd (no) m or f, velvære n
- Nynorsk: velferd f, velvære n
- Ottoman Turkish: عمارت (ʼimaret), عمران (ʼümran)
- Persian: بهبود (fa) (behbud)
- Plautdietsch: Wool n
- Polish: dobrobyt (pl) m
- Portuguese: bem-estar (pt) m
- Romanian: bunăstare (ro) f, prosperitate (ro) f, sănătate (ro) f
- Russian: благосостоя́ние (ru) n (blagosostojánije), благополу́чие (ru) n (blagopolúčije), благоде́нствие (ru) n (blagodénstvije), доста́ток (ru) m (dostátok) (prosperity)
- Sanskrit: स्वस्ति (sa) n (svasti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: до̏бробӣт f
- Roman: dȍbrobīt (sh) f
- Slovak: blahobyt m
- Spanish: bienestar (es) m
- Swedish: välbefinnande (sv) n, välmående (sv) n
- Turkish: sağlık (tr), dirlik (tr), erinç (tr), gönenç (tr)
- Ukrainian: благополу́ччя (uk) n (blahopolúččja), добро́бут m (dobróbut), доста́ток m (dostátok) (prosperity), благоде́нство (uk) n (blahodénstvo)
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References
- “well-being”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- well-being in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “well-being”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.