• enPR: măl'ə-dē, IPA: /ˈmæl.ə.di/

malady (plural maladies)

1. Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXVIII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:

     As, to prevent our maladies unseen, / We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.

   • The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind.

2. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

   • Love's a malady without a cure.

• ailment, disease, disorder, distemper, illness, sickness

• French: maladie
• German: Krankheit, Übel
• Italian: malattia
• Portuguese: mal
• Russian: боле́знь
• Spanish: mal