malaise – English noun declension

English noun forms of malaise

Noun: malaise
Singularmalaise
Pluralmalaises

Sample Sentences

  • Addressing tech malaise has become a trend with authors and self-help coaches – such as Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, who, during a $295, 50-minute phone call, will offer you advice on things like how to create roadblocks to checking your phone by putting a rubber band around your screen, and “think of the bigger picture” rather than what you’re missing on Twitter. [2019 August 21, Adrienne Matei, “Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone?”, in The Guardian:]
  • Volkswagen’s travails are symbolic of the nation’s overall economic malaise and a political crisis that collapsed the government in December, paving the way for early elections Feb. 23. [2025 January 27, Lenora Chu, “How Volkswagen slid from German engineering icon to innovation laggard”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]
  • The Euston Rush hit the headlines last year. It also became synonymous with a lack of respect for passengers, a disregard for planning in stations, and a general malaise in the rail industry. [2025 November 12, Tom Edwards, “Tackling the 'Euston Rush'”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 32:]
  • Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as their expensive furnishings, but worst of all, they had war instead of peace" (2.65.2). [2003, Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War:]

Etymology

From French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”). Compare ill at ease. See: French Nouns 'malaise'.