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Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary, Synonyms, and Spanish to English Translator

Definition of valetudinarianism in English:

‘Theatre exists in such an eternally precarious state of valetudinarianism that observers keep predicting its imminent demise.’

‘Personally I don't need an absolute to enable me to distinguish between, say, the good of kindness and the evil of slander, or the good of health and the evil of valetudinarianism.’
‘These monuments to Victorian valetudinarianism were packed with patented paraphernalia such as exercise machines and weightlifting contraptions.’
‘A common characteristic of hypochondriascism and valetudinarianism is that both possess exaggerated fears about potential disability.’