hygiene

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English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ὑγιεινή (τέχνη) (hugieinḗ (tékhnē), literally “art of health”), from ὑγιεινός (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ὑγιής (hugiḗs, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: hī'jēn, hījēn', IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪˌd͡ʒiːn/, /haɪˈd͡ʒiːn/

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.

3. Cleanliness.

4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• “hygiene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hygiene”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

1. hygiene

Derived terms

• munnhygiene

Related terms

• hygienisk