condition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɪʃn̩/
enpr: kəndĭshʹən
ipa: /kənˈdɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: conditions
Etymology: From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.
Senses: examples: text: National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
text: The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A state or quality.
examples: text: Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
text: Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
text: Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
text: Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
glosses: A state or quality.
A particular state of being.
examples: text: A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
text: [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.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Various Matters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: A state or quality.
The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
examples: text: My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
text: 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.
ref: 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, →DOI:
glosses: A state or quality.
The health status of a medical patient.
synonyms: fettle
glosses: A state or quality.
The health status of a medical patient.
A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
synonyms: fettle
examples: text: Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
text: What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
text: The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
glosses: A requirement.
glosses: A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
topics: law
glosses: A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
Synonyms: sense: requirement
word: requisite
sense: requirement
word: necessity
Hyponyms: ascending chain condition
autism spectrum condition
descending chain condition
human condition
interesting condition
Marshall-Lerner condition
mint condition
necessary condition
precondition
sufficient condition
underlying condition
Derived terms: sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: bollard condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: boundary condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: chronic condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: conditionability
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: conditionable
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: conditional
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: conditionly
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: condition number
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: condition of carriage
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: condition precedent
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: condition subsequent
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: countercondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: critical condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: cryocondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: decondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: DEFCON
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: fee simple subject to condition subsequent
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: in ballast condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: in condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: initial condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: Lipschitz condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: loss condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: macrocondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: malcondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: medical condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: metacondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: miscondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: multicondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: on condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: on condition that
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: out of condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: overcondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: postcondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: post-COVID-19 condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: precondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: preexisting condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: pre-existing condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: race condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: Sakharov condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: statement of condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: subcondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: suspensive condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: transversality condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: uncondition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: victory condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: win condition
sense: may include some hyponyms too
word: Yoda condition