condition
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
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- Rhymes: -ɪʃən
- Hyphenation: con‧dit‧ion
Noun
[edit]condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)
- A state or quality.
- Synonym: way
- National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
- The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 48:
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- 2007 February 20, Tina Kelley, “A Wet Wind Tunnel So Ships Can Move Faster and Better”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 December 2022:
- A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.
- A particular state of being.
- Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
- Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
- Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
- Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
- (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
- A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Various Matters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 142:
- [T]his Zeal was now inflamed by Lady Bellaſton, who had told her the preceding Evening, that ſhe was well ſatiſfied from the Conduct of Sophia, and from her Carriage to his Lordſhip, that all Delays would be dangerous, and that the only Way to ſucceed, was to preſs the Match forward with ſuch Rapidity, that the young Lady ſhould have no Time to reflect, and be obliged to conſent while ſhe ſcarce knew what ſhe did. In which Manner, ſhe ſaid, one half of the Marriages among People of Condition were brought about.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- Synonym: fettle
- My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
- Pregnancy and type 2 diabetes are conditions in which dietary choices take on especial importance.
- 2024 November 15, Işık Akın Bülbül, Selda Özdemir, “Evaluation of the Social Attention Hypothesis: Do Children with Autism Prefer to See Objects Rather than People?”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, :
- If the visual attention sequence of children with autism and TD children varied depending on the condition, we could argue that the inclusion of objects in the environment influences the visual attention patterns of both groups.
- A certain abnormal state of health: a malady.
- 1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 July 2014:
- While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.
- A requirement or prerequisite.
- Near-synonym: criterion
- Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 353, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish):
- The performance of managerial functions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of belonging to the capitalist class.
- 1997, Shania Twain, Mutt Lange, “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”, in Come On Over[3], performed by Shania Twain:
- Ah, no inhibitions
Make no conditions
Get a little outta line
I ain't gonna act
Politically correct
I only wanna have a good time
- What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
- The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]may include some hyponyms too
- bollard condition
- boundary condition
- chronic condition
- conditionability
- conditionable
- conditional
- conditionly
- condition number
- condition of carriage
- condition precedent
- condition subsequent
- countercondition
- critical condition
- cryocondition
- decondition
- DEFCON
- fee simple subject to condition subsequent
- in ballast condition
- in condition
- initial condition
- Lipschitz condition
- loss condition
- macrocondition
- malcondition
- medical condition
- metacondition
- miscondition
- multicondition
- on condition
- on condition that
- out of condition
- overcondition
- postcondition
- post-COVID-19 condition
- precondition
- pre-existing condition
- preexisting condition
- race condition
- Robin boundary condition
- Sakharov condition
- statement of condition
- subcondition
- suspensive condition
- transversality condition
- uncondition
- victory condition
- win condition
- Yoda condition
Translations
[edit]logical clause or phrase
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requirement or requisite
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clause in a contract or agreement
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health status of a patient
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