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noun a state or condition free from damage or decay
noun the quality of being prudent and sensible
noun the muscle tone of healthy tissue
originFrom Middle English soundenes, soundnes, from Old English *sundnes, *ġesundnes (attested in onsundnes), from Proto-West Germanic *sundnassī (“soundness, health”); equivalent to sound + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian sûnens (“soundness, health”), Middle Low German suntnisse (“soundness, health”), Middle High German suntnisse (“soundness, health”), German Gesundnis (“health”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0