debility
noun
1 debility
The state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age).
synonyms: feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism.
Roget 160:
weakness
etc.
adj.;
debility,
atony†,
relaxation,
languor,
enervation;
impotence
etc.
158;
infirmity;
effeminacy,
feminality†;
fragility,
flaccidity;
inactivity
etc.
683.
anaemia,
bloodlessness,
deficiency of blood,
poverty of blood.
declension of strength,
loss of strength,
failure of strength;
delicacy,
invalidation,
decrepitude,
asthenia†,
adynamy†,
cachexy†,
cachexia [Med.],
sprain,
strain.
reed,
thread,
rope of sand,
house of cards.
softling†,
weakling;
infant
etc.
129;
youth
etc.
127.
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Dutch: asthenie, slapte, zwakte
Polish: osłabienie, mizerność, anemiczność, słabość, niemoc
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