valetudinarian

“There’s a class-based idea that anything too valetudinarian, too conspicuously hygienic, is middle-class,” he said, using a long word for being unduly anxious about one’s health.

“He’s a valetudinarian as opposed to a hypochondriac, who is entirely concerned with their own health — he’s obsessively concerned with everybody else’s,” Nighy said in an interview.

Paranoid about his health, this classic valetudinarian is really scared of dying alone and unloved.

Andy from Broadstairs, potentially impressed by the heft of , writes: "What does valetudinarians mean Will? have you been at the thesaurus again?"

When I was a child, people still spoke of the Biblical "three-score and ten" as a perfectly acceptable lifespan, and once they had retired, usually in their mid-60s, they thought of themselves as valetudinarians.