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English
Etymology
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio. Displaced native Old English hād (“state, condition”).
Pronunciation
Noun
condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)
- A state or quality.
- Synonym: way
National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
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: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.
- A particular state of being.
Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system. Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery. Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened. Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
- (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing Various Matters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume VI, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 142:[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.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- Synonym: fettle
My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition. Pregnancy and type 2 diabetes are conditions in which dietary choices take on especial importance.
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: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.
- A certain abnormal state of health: a malady.
- Synonyms: disease, disorder, sickness
1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 July 2014:While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.
- A requirement or prerequisite.
- Near-synonym: criterion
Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
What other planets might have the right conditions for life? The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
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logical clause or phrase
- Albanian: kusht (sq) m
- Arabic: شَرْط m (šarṭ)
- Armenian: պայման (hy) (payman)
- Azerbaijani: şərt (az)
- Bashkir: шарт (şart)
- Belarusian: умо́ва (be) f (umóva)
- Bengali: শর্ত (bn) (śorto)
- Bulgarian: усло́вие (bg) n (uslóvie)
- Catalan: condició (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 條件 / 条件 (tiu4 gin6-2)
- Mandarin: 條件 / 条件 (zh) (tiáojiàn)
- Czech: podmínka (cs) f
- Danish: bekostning (da) n, betingelse (da)
- Dutch: conditie (nl)
- Esperanto: kondiĉo
- Estonian: tingimus
- Finnish: ehto (fi), edellytys (fi)
- French: condition (fr)
- Galician: condición (gl) f
- Georgian: პირობა (ṗiroba)
- German: Bedingung (de) f, Kondition (de) f
- Greek: όρος (el) m (óros)
- Hebrew: תְּנַאי (he) m (t'nai)
- Hindi: शर्त (hi) f (śart)
- Hungarian: feltétel (hu)
- Indonesian: kondisi (id)
- Italian: condizione (it) f
- Japanese: 条件 (ja) (じょうけん, jōken)
- Kazakh: жағдай (jağday), шарт (šart)
- Khmer: កត្តា (km) (kɑttaa)
- Korean: 조건(條件) (ko) (jogeon)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شەرت (şert)
- Northern Kurdish: şert (ku)
- Kyrgyz: шарт (ky) (şart)
- Lao: ກະຕິກາ (lo) (ka ti kā)
- Latin: conditio f
- Latvian: noteikums m
- Lithuanian: sąlyga f
- Macedonian: у́слов m (úslov)
- Malay: syarat (ms)
- Maltese: kundizzjoni f
- Māori: āhuatanga (mi)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нөхцөл (mn) (nöxcöl)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vilkår (no) n, betingelse m
- Ottoman Turkish: شرط (şart)
- Pashto: شرط (ps) m (šart)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: شَرْط (šart)
- Polish: warunek (pl) m
- Portuguese: condição (pt) f
- Romanian: condiție (ro) f
- Romansh: cundiziun f
- Russian: усло́вие (ru) n (uslóvije)
- Scottish Gaelic: cor m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у́вет m, у́вјет m, у́слов m
- Latin: úvet m, úvjet (sh) m, úslov (sh) m
- Slovak: podmienka f
- Slovene: pogoj m
- Spanish: condición (es) f
- Swedish: villkor (sv) n
- Tajik: талабот (talabot), шарт (tg) (šart)
- Tatar: шарт (tt) (şart)
- Telugu: స్థితి (te) (sthiti), పరిస్థితి (te) (paristhiti)
- Thai: เงื่อนไข (th) (ngʉ̂ʉan-kǎi), กติกา (th) (gà-dtì-gaa)
- Turkish: şart (tr), koşul (tr)
- Turkmen: şert, ýagdaý
- Ukrainian: умо́ва (uk) f (umóva)
- Urdu: شَرْط f (śart)
- Uyghur: شەرت (shert)
- Uzbek: shart (uz)
- Vietnamese: điều kiện (vi) (條件)
- Yiddish: טנייַ (tnay)
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requirement or requisite
- Armenian: պայման (hy) (payman)
- Azerbaijani: şərt (az)
- Belarusian: умо́ва (be) f (umóva)
- Bulgarian: усло́вие (bg) n (uslóvie)
- Catalan: condició (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 條件 / 条件 (tiu4 gin6-2)
- Mandarin: 條件 / 条件 (zh) (tiáojiàn)
- Dutch: voorwaarde (nl) f
- Finnish: ehto (fi), edellytys (fi), vaatimus (fi), vaade (fi)
- French: condition (fr) f
- Galician: condición (gl) f
- German: Bedingung (de) f, Voraussetzung (de) f
- Greek: προϋπόθεση (el) f (proÿpóthesi)
- Hebrew: תְּנַאי (he) m (t'nái)
- Hungarian: feltétel (hu), előfeltétel (hu), követelmény (hu)
- Indonesian: kondisi (id), syarat (id)
- Ingrian: uslovia
- Irish: coinníoll m
- Italian: condizione (it)
- Japanese: 条件 (ja) (じょうけん, jōken)
- Korean: 조건(條件) (ko) (jogeon)
- Manchu: ᡥᠠᠴᡳᠰᡠ (hacisu)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: нөхцөл (mn) (nöxcöl)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vilkår (no) n, forutsetning (no) m
- Occitan: condicion (oc) f
- Oromo: haala
- Ottoman Turkish: شرط (şart)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: شَرْط (šart)
- Polish: warunek (pl) m
- Portuguese: condição (pt)
- Romanian: condiție (ro) f, premisă (ro) f
- Romansh: cundiziun f
- Russian: усло́вие (ru) n (uslóvije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у́вет m, у́вјет m, у́слов m
- Latin: úvet m, úvjet (sh) m, úslov (sh) m
- Slovene: pogoj m
- Somali: xaal
- Spanish: condición (es)
- Swedish: villkor (sv) n, förutsättning (sv) c
- Turkish: şart (tr)
- Ukrainian: умо́ва (uk) f (umóva)
- Urdu: شَرْط f (śart)
- Vietnamese: điều kiện (vi) (條件)
- Welsh: amod (cy) m
- Yiddish: תּנאַי m (tnay)
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clause in a contract or agreement health status of a patient
- Arabic: حَال m (ḥāl), حَالَة (ar) f (ḥāla)
- Armenian: վիճակ (hy) (vičak)
- Azerbaijani: hal (az)
- Bashkir: хәл (xäl)
- Belarusian: стан m (stan), стано́вішча n (stanóvišča)
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: kamugtakan
- Bulgarian: състоя́ние (bg) n (săstojánie)
- Burmese: အခြေအနေ (my) (a.hkrea.ne)
- Catalan: condició (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 狀態 / 状态 (zong6 taai3)
- Mandarin: 狀態 / 状态 (zh) (zhuàngtài), 病情 (zh) (bìngqíng)
- Czech: stav (cs), kondice (cs) f
- Dutch: conditie (nl) f
- Esperanto: stato (eo)
- Finnish: vointi (fi), tila (fi), olo (fi), kondis (fi) (informal), kunto (fi) (informal) (e.g. when asked from a patient mikä sun kunto on?)
- French: condition (fr) f
- Galician: condición (gl) f
- German: Verfassung (de) f, Kondition (de) f, Befinden (de) n, Zustand (de) m
- Greek: κατάσταση (el) f (katástasi)
- Ancient Greek: ἕξις f (héxis)
- Hindi: हालत (hi) f (hālat)
- Hungarian: állapot (hu), kondíció (hu), (only with the suffix -ban in this sense) karban (hu)
- Indonesian: kondisi (id), keadaan (id)
- Irish: bail f, caoi f, dóigh f
- Italian: condizione (it) f
- Japanese: 状態 (ja) (じょうたい, jōtai), コンディション (ja) (kondishon)
- Korean: 상태(狀態) (ko) (sangtae), 컨디션 (ko) (keondisyeon)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: حاڵ (ḧall)
- Latin: status (la) m
- Latvian: apstāklis m
- Lithuanian: būklė (lt) f
- Macedonian: со́стојба f (sóstojba)
- Maltese: kundizzjoni f
- Marathi: स्थिती f (sthitī)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilstand (no) m, kondisjon m
- Nynorsk: tilstand m, kondisjon m
- Pashto: حالت (ps) m (hālat)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: حال (fa) (hâl), حالَت (hâlat)
- Plautdietsch: Schekjsol n
- Polish: stan (pl) m, kondycja (pl) f
- Portuguese: condição (pt) f
- Romanian: condiție (ro) f, stare (ro)
- Romansh: cundiziun f
- Russian: состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije)
- Sanskrit: अवस्था (sa) f (avasthā)
- Scottish Gaelic: cor m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ста́ње m
- Latin: stánje (sh) m
- Slovak: stav m
- Slovene: stanje (sl) n
- Spanish: situación (es) f, condición (es)
- Swedish: tillstånd (sv) n, kondition (sv) c (of one's mental status)
- Tajik: ҳолат (holat)
- Tarifit: rḥar m
- Telugu: పరిస్థితి (te) (paristhiti)
- Thai: สภาพ (th) (sà-pâap)
- Turkish: durum (tr), hâl (tr)
- Ukrainian: стан (uk) m (stan), стано́вище n (stanóvyšče)
- Urdu: حالَت f (hālat)
- Uyghur: ھال (hal), ئەھۋال (ehwal)
- Uzbek: ahvol (uz), holat (uz)
- Vietnamese: bệnh trạng (病狀), bệnh tình (vi) (病情), tình trạng sức khoẻ
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abnormal state of health; malady or sickness state of an object
- Albanian: gjendje (sq) f
- Arabic: حَالَة (ar) f (ḥāla), وَضْع (ar) m (waḍʕ)
- Armenian: վիճակ (hy) (vičak)
- Azerbaijani: vəziyyət (az), halət
- Bashkir: хәл (xäl), торош (toroş)
- Belarusian: стан m (stan), стано́вішча n (stanóvišča)
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: kamugtakan
- Bulgarian: състоя́ние (bg) n (săstojánie)
- Catalan: condició (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 狀態 / 状态 (zong6 taai3)
- Mandarin: 狀態 / 状态 (zh) (zhuàngtài)
- Czech: stav (cs) m
- Danish: tilstand (da) c
- Dutch: toestand (nl)
- Esperanto: stato (eo)
- Finnish: tila (fi), kunto (fi) (e.g. jalka on huonossa kunnossa), kondis (fi) (informal), happi (fi) (informal, humoristic) (e.g. Matti on huonossa hapessa)
- Galician: condición (gl) f
- Georgian: მდგომარეობა (mdgomareoba)
- German: Beschaffenheit (de) f, Zustand (de) m
- Greek: κατάσταση (el) f (katástasi)
- Ancient Greek: ἕξις f (héxis)
- Hindi: हालत (hi) f (hālat)
- Hungarian: állapot (hu), viszony (hu), körülmény (hu) (all: also in the plural), (only with the suffix -ban in this sense) karban (hu)
- Ido: stando (io)
- Indonesian: kondisi (id), keadaan (id)
- Irish: bail f, caoi f, dóigh f
- Italian: condizione (it) f
- Japanese: 状態 (ja) (じょうたい, jōtai)
- Kazakh: ахуал (axuwal), жағдай (jağday), күй (küy)
- Korean: 상태(狀態) (ko) (sangtae)
- Kyrgyz: абал (ky) (abal)
- Latin: status (la) m, habitus m
- Macedonian: состојба f (sostojba)
- Malay: keadaan (ms)
- Maltese: kundizzjoni f
- Marathi: स्थिती f (sthitī)
- Mizo: dinhmun
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: байдал (mn) (baidal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilstand (no) m
- Occitan: condicion (oc) f
- Old English: steall m
- Ottoman Turkish: وضعیت (vazʼiyet), بال (bâl), پرهسه (perese)
- Pashto: حالت (ps) m (hālát)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: حالَت (hâlat), حال (fa) (hâl), وَضْعِیَت (fa) (vaz'iyat)
- Plautdietsch: Schekjsol n
- Polish: stan (pl) m, kondycja (pl) f, warunek (pl) m
- Portuguese: condição (pt) f
- Romanian: condiție (ro)
- Romansh: cundiziun f
- Russian: состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije)
- Sanskrit: अवस्था (sa) f (avasthā)
- Scottish Gaelic: cor m, càradh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ста́ње m
- Latin: stánje (sh) m
- Sikkimese: སྐུ་ཁམས (sku khams)
- Slovak: stav m
- Slovene: stanje (sl) n
- Swedish: tillstånd (sv) n, kondition (sv) c
- Tajik: ҳолат (holat)
- Tamil: நிலை (ta) (nilai)
- Telugu: స్థితి (te) (sthiti)
- Thai: ภาวะ (th) (paa-wá), สภาพ (th) (sà-pâap)
- Turkish: durum (tr), hâl (tr)
- Turkmen: ýagdaýy
- Ukrainian: стан (uk) m (stan), стано́вище n (stanóvyšče)
- Urdu: حالَت f (hālat)
- Uyghur: ھالەت (halet)
- Uzbek: holat (uz), ahvol (uz)
- Vietnamese: trạng thái (vi) (狀態)
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a particular state of being Verb
condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- (transitive) To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:After some opposition, Marianne yielded to her sister's entreaties, and consented to go out […] She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits […]
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Golden Year”, in Poems. […], 4th edition, volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1846, →OCLC, page 89:Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
- (transitive) To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
1956 May, “Eliminating Slipping of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
1633 May 21 (licensing date; Gregorian calendar), John Fletcher, James Shirley, “The Night-Walker, or The Little Thief. A Comedy.”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene viii, page 212, column 2:[P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.
1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of Idolatrous Corruptions, Quickly Rising, and Hardly at Length Vanishing in the World: […]”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 1st book, §. V (Of the Three Chiefest Iupiters; and the Strange Storie of the Third), page 88:[I]t was conditioned betweene Saturne and Titan, that Saturne being a yonger brother, and raigning (for his owne life), by Titans permiſſion, he ſhould put to death all his male children, leaſt the Titans might be interrupted by any of them in their ſucceſſion; which agreement becauſe Saturne performed in his firſt borne, it is fained that Saturne deuoured his owne children.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
1868, Once a Week:divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed
- (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
Derived terms
Translations
to undergo the process of acclimation
- Bulgarian: свиквам (bg) (svikvam), приспособявам се (prisposobjavam se)
- Catalan: condicionar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 適應 / 适应 (zh) (shìyìng)
- Finnish: sopeutua (fi), mukautua (fi)
- German: konditionieren (de)
- Hungarian: (please verify) hozzászokik (hu), (please verify) megszokik (hu)
- Italian: influenzare (it)
- Japanese: 順応する (じゅんのうする, jun'nōsuru), 適応する (てきおうする, tekiōsuru)
- Norwegian: tilvenne
- Bokmål: tilvenne
- Polish: przywykać impf, przywyknąć (pl) pf
- Portuguese: condicionar (pt), acondicionar (pt)
- Romanian: condiționa (ro)
- Russian: привыка́ть (ru) impf (privykátʹ), привы́кнуть (ru) pf (privýknutʹ); приспоса́бливаться (ru) impf (prisposáblivatʹsja), приспосо́биться (ru) pf (prisposóbitʹsja)
- Spanish: acondicionar (es)
- Swedish: vänja sig (sv)
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to subject to different conditions to make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on to shape the behaviour of someone to do something to contract; to stipulate; to agree Translations to be checked French
Etymology
From Middle French condition, from Old French condicion, borrowed from Latin condiciōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- term, condition
- une condition sine qua non ― an imperative
- une condition suffisante ― a sufficient condition
- une condition nécessaire ― a necessary condition
- à condition que ― on condition that
- à condition de ― on condition of
- condition, state
- en bonne condition ― in good condition
- une excellente condition physique ― an excellent physical condition
- social status, walk of life
- Le couple se contentait de soirées entre amis de conditions diverses. ― The couple was content with partying with friends from all walks of life.
- (in the plural) conditions
- conditions de vie ― living conditions
- conditions de travail ― working conditions
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Descendants
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French condicion, from Latin condicio.
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- condition (state, quality)
Descendants
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