What's the difference between insalubrity and unwholesomeness?

Insalubrity


Definition:

  • (n.) Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In two cases, indoor contamination must be suspected; in the third case, transmission has been facilitated by insalubrity and crowding; the fourth case was related to the activities of a dustman in camping sites.
  • (2) Despite accusations that it is making a scapegoat of the Roma to boost its credentials on the right and far-right, the government insists its policy is merely the result of keeping to the law – that the EU's freedom of movement should not be abused, that the "insalubrity" of camps should be eradicated and that the crime apparently brought in to France by the Roma should be fought.

Unwholesomeness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That we demand a contest as satisfyingly unwholesome and rancorous as Cain and Abel, not something as nauseatingly wholesome and harmonious as Abel and Cole?
  • (2) In the southern forest areas, dried fish, groundnuts and oil palm products often carry unwholesome quantities of aflatoxin.
  • (3) In that sense all stories are written backwards - they are supposed to begin with the facts and develop from there, but in reality they begin with a journalist's point of view, a conception... All this is difficult and even rather unwholesome to explain to the layman, because he gets the impression that you are saying that truth does not matter and that you are publicly admitting what he long ago suspected, that journalism is a way of 'cooking' the facts.
  • (4) Clinicians must evaluate these systems as to their wholesome or unwholesome impact on a particular health issue or problem, seeking corrective as well as preventive measures.
  • (5) Like other unwholesome aspects of the Anthropocene, we mostly respond to mass extinction with stuplimity: the aesthetic experience in which astonishment is united with boredom, such that we overload on anxiety to the point of outrage-outage.
  • (6) The influence can be strong in lasting relationships; it can be either wholesome or unwholesome.

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